Charlotte nonprofit helping Afghan refugees

Charlotte is one of six North Carolina communities -- including Raleigh, New Bern, Durham, Greensboro, and Asheville -- that will soon welcome 1,169 Afghan refugees. Resettlement agencies have enough funds to help families for the first 90 days, and after that period, Charlotte nonprofits are prepared to help refugees in various ways. Project 658 is a faith-based non-profit that offers mental health counseling, ESL classes, and job skills training to Charlotte immigrants and refugees. One of the classes the organization offers is Make Welcome Sewing. Julia Camenisch has been teaching the sewing class for eight years. “These women are really stressed,” Camenisch said. “They’ve been through a lot of trauma. It’s hard, but they come here and it’s like warm, inviting and creative. They really relax, they have fun, they laugh.” READ MORE: https://www.wcnc.com/article/features...