Afghan refugee Mohammad Mashooq Dowlati, a former interpreter for the U.S. army in Afghanistan, now runs a food truck
Parkview Gardens Apartments is a private housing community in Riverdale, Maryland, about a 30 minute drive from Washington. For many people who live there, this place is more than just a residence. The apartments are their first secure homes in years and a stepping stone to make their lives anew. VOA’s June Soh visited Parkview Gardens and met some residents from the troubled world all over.
More than half the apartments in sprawling complex are rented by refugees who fled war, conflict, and persecution
Aimee Lee’s dedication to Hanji started in 2008, when she went to Korea with a U.S. Fulbright grant to research the disappearing traditional paper arts
A pair of 100-year-old scissors have enormous symbolic value for the Jamalrezas, and is emblematic of their value system
Uzbekistan native embraces his opportunity to achieve the American Dream
Charlottesville, a small city about 190 kilometers south of Washington D.C., is known to welcome refugees. More than 3,000 refugees, including Yasha Ismailov, have re-started their lives here, where Ismailov has built a reputation as the ultimate fixer of cars.
Clinic is dedicated to refugees and immigrants and all the baggage they bring with them: years of poor medical care and strain of living in violent or repressive society
One mother starts a nutrition program to raise up a new generation of women leaders through food
Ben Rasmussen's love affair with chocolate began about eight years ago, when he tasted a sample of gourmet dark chocolate; in very short order, his company was born
Washington’s National Building Museum shows modern engineered wood products are a strong and versatile material that could even replace concrete and steel in some projects
Spraying chemicals, monitoring and harvesting crops are all labor and time-intensive tasks for farmers. Now researchers are developing a robot that can tackle some of those jobs by using radio frequency identification. VOA’s June Soh has more on the multi-tasking robot that is expected to help farmers save money.
Robot's job is to move through a vineyard or orchard doing the jobs farmers either spend too much time doing, or do too much of
New exhibit features more than 60 manuscripts of and about the Quran, created over more than 1,000 years across the Islamic world
Children outgrow their shoes quickly, which can leave those who live in abject poverty no option but to walk around barefoot and be subject to soil-transmitted diseases and parasites
More than half of the refugees who are resettled in the US each year come from agricultural backgrounds
The Green Valley Book Fair has a half million books in a wide variety of categories, including politics, religion, science, travel, cooking, children’s books and more
Tap into girls' unlimited potential to see a future in tech
Overnight camp gives teenagers a taste of Broadway stardom
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