FEATURED ARTICLESafe Haven in a New Home: ADA Members Help Refugees Adjust to Life in AmericaFor the last three years, Kathy Petersen, DTR, has been working with people who have never had running water, seen a grocery store nor used a kitchen appliance. Many do not speak English and nearly all suffer from diet-related health problems. It may sound like the backdrop of a medical mission to a remote developing country, but it isn’t. This scene takes place in Texas.Petersen provides nutrition education and counseling to refugees who have relocated to Houston to escape persecution in the Republic of the Sudan, a large, war-torn country in northeast Africa. Before arriving in the U.S., many Sudanese refugees live in refugee camps–usually in neighboring Kenya or Ethiopia–where they receive rations of food and supplies. There are some health clinics but with the high number of people and communicable diseases in the camps, medical care is largely inadequate. As a result Current subscribersLogin to download this issue as a PDF |