The Welcome Corps Celebrates First Year of New Service Opportunity for Americans to Privately Sponsor Refugees | International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Representing one of the boldest innovations to U.S. refugee resettlement in 40 years, the State Department launched the Welcome Corps to create new ways for Americans to play a key role in resettling refugees. In groups of five or more adults, Americans come together in the Welcome Corps to take on essential tasks to help refugees during their first 90 days in the United States. This includes securing and preparing initial housing, greeting refugees at the airport, helping adults find employment, enrolling children in school, and serving as guides to enable refugees to forge ties in their new communities. Source: The Welcome Corps Celebrates First Year of New Service Opportunity for Americans to Privately Sponsor Refugees | International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Girl Frisking Soldier – Banksy in Bethlehem | STREET ART UTOPIA

Street Artist Banksy

By Banksy in Bethlehem. Banksy’s decorations of the West Bank barrier are widely held up as a genuine expression of political activism in support of both ‘the Palestinians’ and the advancement of human rights. This is one of his most iconic street artwork on the West Bank.

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Source: Girl Frisking Soldier – Banksy in Bethlehem | STREET ART UTOPIA

‘The pigs have disappeared’: swine fever threatens food source for millions as disease hits wild herds – Stigmatis News

Scientists call for urgent intervention, as bearded pig populations are devastated by the deadly virus on islands such as Borneo

Phoebe Weston

Populations of wild pigs are crashing due to the spread of African swine fever (ASF), threatening the livelihoods of millions who depend on them for food, researchers warn.

Source: ‘The pigs have disappeared’: swine fever threatens food source for millions as disease hits wild herds – Stigmatis News