Home Across Lands, a documentary film about refugee resettlement premieres in Rhode Island
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Home Across Lands, a documentary film about refugee resettlement premieres tomorrow night in Providence, Rhode Island.
The film chronicles the work of the International Institute of Rhode Island staff and volunteers as they guide Kunaman refugees from a life of despair in the Shimelba Refugee Camp in northern Ethiopia, to their new home in Providence: from thatched-roof mud huts to a path to self-sufficiency in a new country.
The Kunama featured in the film fled their native Eritrea after war broke out between Eritrea and Ethiopia in 1998. They then spent years in the Shimelba camp until they were granted refugee status by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees that allowed them to come to the United States.
The film will be shown at 7 p.m. at the Columbus Theatre, 270 Broadway. The event begins at 6:30 p.m.: suggested donation is $35; patrons, $100.
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