So How Is Asha Doing Today?

From time to time people ask me how Asha and her family are doing today. You can read about her by clicking on the About Us Tab and learning about how our organization started. It’s a sweet story and meeting her inspired our founder, Jamie Jones, to set up this Non-Profit to help other incoming refugees in similar and challenging situations that prevented them from achieving a successful resettlement (life anew in America). Her name, Asha, means “a place of hope” hence the name of the place of hope we plan to build and pull together as we aim to fulfill the vision we feel God set before us enabling the Memphis community to better assist incoming refugees. You can read about Our Vision also by clicking on the link from the home page.

So how is Asha doing today? I wrote a blog post updating everyone about her a while back that I have linked for you below. Today, however, I have heard that she is still doing very well in Nashville, TN. In fact, Asha now has a job!! She works at a Goodwill warehouse and folds and sorts clothing for them sitting down in her chair. This makes me so happy for her. Nimo and Hodo, her nieces whom she calls her own, are doing very well in High School and should do well transferring to college one day. Her brother, Abdullahi, still drives a freight truck back and forth from Nashville to Loredo, Texas! He helps to support his new wife, new baby, his nieces and Asha. It has been a little while since I have been able to catch Asha to try and talk to her on her phone because she is busy at work but the last time I did I was surprised at how much easier it was to communicate. She was continuing her education and taking English classes weekly and working hard to raise the girls the last we heard from her. Their family is grateful to America for allowing them to come and escape the Somali Civil Wars and get out of the awful situations they were in at the refugee camp. They are grateful to Asha’s Refuge for impacting their life and encouraging them on their way.

https://ashasrefuge.wordpress.com/2014/09/10/ashas-successful-flight-2/

Here are some updated pictures too!

Asha and Abdullahi’s baby