Refugee Women Get a Taste of Entrepreneurship
When refugees arrive in a new country, they bring little to no material possessions. But many bring something more valuable: their talent and skills. Twenty refugee women and asylum-seekers from different parts of the world recently came together at a pop-up store in Phoenix, Arizona, to display their homemade products and tell their compelling stories. The details and the countries may be different, but their stories are strikingly similar. From Iraq Nada Alrubaye was an art teacher who fled Iraq. "I had two boys. One, my young boy, was killed in Baghdad," she said. "I decided to go to Turkey with another son because I wanted to protect him." They arrived in Arizona four years ago. "I escaped from Syria seven years ago when the war started," said…