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Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Institute helping immigrants adjust

The English Center is teaching immigrants how to manage in this country. - - Donna Poisl



By Robert Guttersohn



Youngstown -- Hiwa Amid was only 3 when the Kurdish Revolution in Iraq began and knows of it only through stories passed down to him.



“I have heard a lot of it from family, from relatives and other Kurdish people,” Amid said. “It was pretty bad during that time.”



Now 23, the shy civil engineering grad student at Youngstown State University is learning English at the English Language Institute.

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