
The New American Center Through the Eyes of a Refugee
Zuruf Basher has lived in three different countries and came to America as a refugee. He was born in Sudan and lived there for about six years until war forced his family to go to Ethiopia. Because his family knew America would give Basher a better chance to receive a good education, they sent him with his step-mother and brother to Lynn in 2005. It was difficult at first for Basher to find other Ethiopians or Sudanese in Lynn. One day in 2006, though, he saw a man sitting do

GORP Challenges Lynn Students
Here is a story written by Gordon College student, Stephanie Goethner, about the GORP program which NAC students attended on April 16, 2011. GORP Challenges Lynn Students to Try New Things "Holy cow!", "That looks scary.", "Look how high that is, I'm not going up there." These were some of the echoes of the New American Center students as they arrived to the ropes course one frigid, Saturday morning in April. Despite the cold, by the end of the day, the students changed to ye