Caring for Children from Kabul to Houston (opens in new tab)

Safia is among the 50,500 Afghan refugees admitted to the United States via the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV), a program created by Congress to help Afghans who worked for the U.S. government abroad. A college-educated math teacher who is not yet licensed to teach in the United States, Safia applied for a childcare training and licensing class at ECDC – Houston Multicultural Center. “In order to speed up this self-sufficiency goal, it takes everyone in the household working,” said Earlene Le...