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Syracuse nonprofit Refugee and Immigrant Self-Empowerment, or RISE, received a $30,000 healthy equity grant to help Central New York newcomers to grow their own produce.
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Syracuse-based Refugee and Immigrant Self-Empowerment has been approved to resettle 50 people from Afghanistan by the federal Afghan Placement and Assistance Program. Some could be those who helped the US military as translators or contractors, and are now threatened to be in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Community is being asked to welcome and support them..