• Alex and Isaie’s Story

    A significant amount of people moving to the United States come here for medical care. The American healthcare system may have its flaws but the ability to access good quality healthcare and medical facilities, no matter your background, is something that appeals to many refugees and immigrants. Healthcare is important…

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  • Gentilles’ Story

    If you talk to any immigrant of refugee living in the United States, their response to the question of why they moved to the country is almost always the same. For a chance to improve their life and the lives of their families and children. The youth of these refugee…

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  • Serina and Sahar’s Story

    I had the opportunity to work with an organization based in Kentucky called Kentucky Refugee Ministries. The company works with refugees who relocate to Kentucky, trying to help them get their way around their new homes. KRM (Kentucky Refugee Ministries) works to provide them with resources like jobs, medical appointments…

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  • Famous Last Words

    in the palace newly reared beat it to dust and clay.  silent hammers of decay, other hammers, muffled hammers. i’m like a dog curing of rabies let me die! let me wither!  be not rash with thy heart.

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  • S H E L L Y

    Shelly  Two blue lines. My heart was racing as I checked the test again. Two. Blue. Lines. One little head, poking out of the white blanket. Six letters, S-H-E-L-L-Y. On the gift box label, left on my doorstep, A gift for the baby, read my neighbor’s scrawly handwriting. Two syllables,…

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Zoya Abbas

Lexington Youth Poet Laureate

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