and it gets refugee kids ready for the challenges of american schools. a new group just graduated from the program including 15-year-old anita from nepal who is joining us now. hi, anita. also with us is helen samuels a 17-year-old refugee from thailand who has been through the program and is now a peer counselor. and james lenton the youth director for the academy. thanks to all of you. how are you guys doing? great. great. thanks. everybody is doing well. good. james, tell us how this all works. well, the main aim of the international rescue committee s summer academy is to prepare newly arrived refugee students to enter the new york city school system in the fall. and we work with students who come from all over the world from countries like iraq, burma, nepal, and the ivory coast, and all of our students have suffered tremendously and made great sacrifices to come here. many of them have witnessed war or lived in refugee camps for an