Akron Refugees

Parents, teachers and elementary-school aged students at Leggett Community Learning Center in Akron - including some refugee families - showed up in large numbers to Board of Education meetings Monday and Wednesday this week, asking the board not to displace them from their building.

Bhakta Rizal is a refugee from Bhutan who has resettled in Akron. He started Shanti Farms, a non-profit urban farming project focused on immigrant communities.

Makambo Mtambala, originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo and now a resident of Akron's North Hill neighborhood, wants a larger following for Afro United, the soccer team he coaches.

Meet Randhoj Pandhak, a Bhutanese refugee living in Akron, adapting to a new way of life and rediscovering his roots in music. This story is part of the "Sound of Us" series, "Arrivals."

Greater Akron Lok Dohori Samuha is a gathering of Lhotshampa (Bhutanese refugees from Nepal) who play traditional Nepalese music.

Tamana Ziar helps refugees and immigrants who just moved to the U.S. Her job includes enrolling kids into school, setting up medical appointments and referring newcomers to the English department at the International Institute of Akron. She's also an immigrant herself.

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Editors's note: This is the third report in a week-long series WKSU is doing on the integration of Bhutanese-Nepali refugees, who began their migration to…