Ethiopian Tewahedo Social Services (ETSS) is in the process of applying to become Columbus' third official resettlement agency.
It was never unusual for Tatjana Bozhinovski to provide services to immigrants as a part of her job with a local nonprofit group.from the start — when they arrived at John Glenn Columbus International Airport.
If the application goes through, ETSS would become the third resettlement organization in the city — restoring the number to what it used to be before reduced federal funding during the Trump administration forced one agency, World Relief, to close its doors locally in 2017. What makes ETSS different from the other agencies is that it has been offering a wider range of programs to new Americans for the past two decades, Asfaw said.
“When we first came here, we didn’t know how things work,” Abdul Hamidi said. “The caseworkers found us an apartment, got us our Social Security numbers so we can work, and we are still taking English classes there almost every morning. Our goal is to get a job, and, with the ETSS program, save enough money to go back to college.”Local agencies respond to everchanging national policies
The U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan last August created additional resettlement needs, and Biden recently announced that the U.S. will take in up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, though the administration has yet to produce a concrete plan.
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