On a Sunday morning at a church in Madison, Wisconsin, a Cameroonian immigrant feels at home despite being thousands of miles away from his loved ones. Ngwa Augustine says he owes his life to this community, especially the two people sitting next to him: Toni and Mark Swandby. In late 2019, the Swanbys decided to open their house to this asylum seeker they had never met.
By Zhen Wang, Wisconsin Watch Ali Akbar Gholami arrived in the United States in September 2021 with little more than his work ID. He had no time to gather .