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Asylum seekers

26 Feb 2024

Part 6 — The Saga Is Over

If you’re just coming to this story, here are the links to the earlier posts: Part 1: The Saga Begins Part 2: So Close and Yet So Far Part 3: Moving the Money Part 4: Human Trafficking? Part 5: The … Read More

Asylum seekers, cultural differences, Fareed Zakaria, Immigration Rights, Janet Givens, Statue of Liberty, The Saga Is Over
30 Jan 2024

Part 2 — So close and yet so far

We’re continuing with our story of the young Cameroonian asylum seeker we are calling Ari. If you missed last week’s beginning, Part I can be found here. Wednesday, January 6, 2021, as we all became transfixed watching the US Capital … Read More

Asylum seekers, cultural differences, Janet Givens
23 Jan 2024

The Saga Begins: Part 1

Part I: How to Determine the Value of a Man’s Life “What is a man’s life worth?” Nancy’s question made the three of us pause. Nancy, a local Vermonter as am I, ran the local penpal program that matched writers … Read More

Asylum seekers, Janet Givens, The Saga Begins: Part I, The Value of a Man's Life
26 Jul 2023

Hosting An Asylum Seeker

I’ve given a name to the initial phase in hosting any stranger in your home, for surely most come in as strangers. It’s simply: “What is this stranger doing in my kitchen?” The name comes easily — I actually had … Read More

Asylum seekers, cultural differences, Janet Givens, Janet Givens author
21 Oct 2020

Treating Racism Like CoVid-19: Step Four

Subtitle: While introducing you to the new man in our life. Remember this poster? Under the BLACK LIVES MATTER headline, it reads, TREAT RACISM LIKE COVID-19 and she gives us four steps to do this. So, far, I’ve gotten three … Read More

Asylum seekers, Janet Givens author, Sponsoring an asylum seeker, Sponsorship
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LEAPFROG: How to hold a civil conversation in an uncivil era

“Janet’s LEAPFROG describes— in an accessible and fun way— the nuts and bolts of how to have a civil conversation…”

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At Home on the Kazakh Steppe:A Peace Corps Memoir

Praise from Kirkus Review

“…she writes engagingly … a sharp-eyed journalist. A worthwhile read for anyone with an interest in humanitarian work.”

At Home on the Kazakh Steppe, A Peace Corps Memoir, by Janet Givens
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