Columbia Community Collects Winter Coats For Afghan Refugees Settling In Maryland Area

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COLUMBIA, Md. (WJZ) — A Columbia assemblage is coming unneurotic to cod wintertime coats for Afghan refugees resettling successful the DMV area.

Elsie Joel-Morse says implicit the past 2 weeks, acknowledgment to connection of rima and dozens of generous hearts, she’s been capable to stitchery adjacent to 1,000 wintertime coats for Afghan refugees housed astatine the Quantico Marine Base successful Virginia.

“They get each these antithetic emails, ‘hey, we request this, we request that,’ whether it’s diapers oregon strollers. And past we got an email saying, ‘hey, we request coats.’ It’s not acold backmost home,” said Joel-Morse.

Maryland ranks 4th successful the federation for SIV oregon peculiar migrant visa arrivals and welcomed astir 200 refugees successful August, according to Gov. Larry Hogan who announced his committedness to person Afghan refugees arsenic US forces withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban regained control.

“Now, with the motorboat of Welcome.US, each of america tin assistance by donating to frontline organizations, offering to service arsenic a big household and by providing indispensable services,” said Hogan.

As galore Afghani families statesman to resettle and rebuild their lives successful the US, helping hands from their section communities similar this 1 are a important asset.

“It’s astonishing to spot radical successful the assemblage truly privation to assistance and seeing the emotion and enactment is beauteous amazing,” said Joel-Morse.

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