Local group helps refugee children feel at home
Group helps refugee children feel at home
CHAT, Culture of Health- Advancing Together, offers them extracurricular programs meant to build physical and mental health in immigrant and refugee families. The group is partnering with artist Amy Malkan to help brighten the new homes of Afghan refugees.
HOUSTON - Friday President Biden approved millions of dollars in emergency funds to resettle Afghan refugees.
One group is helping refugee children right here in Houston.
Eleven-year-old Zohra has been in Houston for less than a year after leaving war-torn Afghanistan.
"It’s this one, that dark pink," she says, pointing out a brightly painted flower on a wooden panel that leans against an apartment’s brick wall.