{"id":9481,"date":"2012-02-19T23:09:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T04:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/?p=9481"},"modified":"2012-02-19T23:11:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T04:11:01","slug":"buffalo-news-burundi-familys-dream-comes-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2012\/02\/buffalo-news-burundi-familys-dream-comes-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo News: Burundi family’s dream comes true"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"(By Emma Sapong, Buffalo News) Four years ago, Claver and Edisa Sango were homeless refugees who were trying to raise a family, living in abject poverty in a squalid Congolese refugee camp.<\/p>\n

Today, the Sangos own a new four-bedroom house in the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood.<\/p>\n

“I’m very happy,” Claver Sango said Sunday, through an interpreter. “In the refugee camp, I had no hope, no dream of having my own home.”<\/p>\n

But the Clarence Habitat Coalition made the American Dream possible for the couple from Burundi.<\/p>\n

Through the coalition, Clarence residents raised $85,000 and worked with Habitat for Humanity to build a house for the Sangos in Buffalo.<\/p>\n

The four-bedroom, 1,350-square-foot ranch house on Fox Street was dedicated Sunday.<\/p>\n

“Immigrants have so much to offer, and they have so much to overcome — language, culture differences,” said Monsignor Fred Leising of Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church. “So we wanted to help them better integrate in the community and welcome them.”<\/p>\n

Read full story on Buffalo News<\/a>—><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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