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Nov 28, 2009
by Lorraine Ahearn

November 28, 2009

 

 

The News-Record
 
GREENSBORO — In a case that highlights thinning assistance for incoming refugees, a Burmese exile resettled through the United Nations has taken emergency shelter at Greensboro Urban Ministry.

Soe Win, 56, arrived in 2007 to be resettled by Lutheran Family Services. Now destitute and suffering from a breakdown, he arrived in mid-

November at the homeless day center on East Bessemer Avenue.

Full story: State anticipates 2,100 new refugee arrivals this year