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Emmy, Youth Representative, wins
Silver Barnum Award! h The Welcome to America Project's Youth Repsresentative for 2010, Emmy of Chandler, AZ, has been hard at work.
Emmy was recently recognized for her hard work and dedication to the mission with a Silver Barnum Award. For over a
year, Emmy has been volunteering her time to the Welcome to America Project, helping recently arrived refugees from Burma,
Iraq, Sudan and other countries settle in their new homes here in the Phoenix area. Emmy was especially interested in the
children. She started a children’s reading program and approached the manager of the apartment complex where the children
live for permission to start a library. He allowed it, and thanks to donated books, the Library is now open. h h Watch for the story on New Channel 5 - Coming Soon!
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Our Volunteers, Our Heroes
WTAP is proud to have over 1,000 volunteers and in-kind
donors taking part in our mission each year. Our volunteers range in age from 5-105, and come from every town and neighborhood
in metro Phoenix. They sort, organize, lift, carry, smile, listen, compose, photograph, fold, mail, enter data, schedule,
crunch numbers, plan, hug, shake hands and welcome refugees to America - every day of the week! WTAP thanks you.
You are all our heroes.
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