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Shanti Community Farms supports Akron s immigrant students
Seyma Bayram, Akron Beacon Journal
© Mike Cardew, Akron Beacon Journal
Bhakta Rizal of Shanti Community Farms looks over hot peppers in the high tunnel behind his home on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020 in Akron. Rizal, who works with school age kids on the farm, received a Millennium Fund Grant to buy school supplies for immigrant children in Akron. [Mike Cardew/Beacon Journal]
Akron resident Bhakta Rizal’s passion for educating and engaging young people dates back to his own childhood. 
In 1993, Rizal was 17 years old and had barely graduated from high school when he and his family became displaced from their native village of Dhalim in Bhangtar, Bhutan. Rizal would spend the next five years in a refugee camp in Nepal.  ....

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