‘They need me’
For Lost Boys of Sudan, education is only part of the solution to help family back home
Daniela Caride
Adier Anyang had never seen an ATM machine, a bank or even a calculator when he came to America in 2001 as a Sudanese refugee. He had learned numbers by sharing with his classmates the few books available in Kakuma Refugee Camp, in Kenya, where he lived for 10 years with 86,000 other African exiles.
At night, Anyang would study under the light of a kerosene lamp until it was time for the only meal of the day: a ration of whatever grain the United Nations distributed that week. His stomach finally calmed down, he would go to sleep in the grass hut he built with his cousin on the dusty land of the Kenyan desert. Full story
At CORI hearing, reform brought back to forefront
Yawu Miller
Scores of CORI reform activists from across Massachusetts gathered at the State House last week to argue for modifications to House Bill 4476, legislation filed in January by Gov. Deval Patrick that would make changes to the laws that govern the records of ex-offenders.
In a packed hearing of the state Legislature’s Joint Committee on the Judiciary — a session that included testimony on bills that would ban minors from buying violent video games and de-criminalize marijuana in the Commonwealth — it was the proposed reforms to the state’s Criminal Offender Record Information, or CORI, laws that dominated the debate. Full story
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