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This spring, one of the longest-standing ethnic communities represented at the New American Center teamed up with the Lynn Food and Fitness Alliance to establish a community garden. Led by Mani Biswa, a group of refugees from Bhutan began cultivating a plot of earth that would soon host a number of fruit and vegetable plants that this group gets to call their own. The City of Lynn was recently chosen as a community to participate in Mass in Motion, a statewide initiatvie of t

Clients and staff of the Russian Community Association of MA celebrated World Refugee Day on June 15, 2015. The community commemorated the day with food, dancing, and fun. The ceremonies of the day commenced with guest speaker, Hong Net, a Councillor at Large for the City of Lynn. Net is originally an immigrant from the southeast Asian nation of Cambodia, and has been living in the United States for the last thirty years. Net opened his speech by giving a description of his j

On June 9, 2015, the clients and staff at the New American Center had the pleasure of hosting Massachusetts’ Attorney General, Maura Healey. General Healey spent an hour at the New American Center, touring the facility and meeting with clients. She was welcomed with an introduction by NAC director, Natasha Soolkin, followed by a personal testimony from former client Mani Biswa. Healey provided the NAC community with an uplifting speech about how she plans to refocus the missi

On May 22, Students of the New American Center gathered along with other members of the Lynn community to remember the victims of the Nepal earthquake of 2015. Fundraising and a candle lighting ceremony honored those that are still suffering today. Julia Baraily and Harena Gebreyesus organized the event with speakers and prayer. The students of the New American Center prove, every day, that they are resilient and hardworking, striving to make the world a better and brighter p