{"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

\u201cI\u2019m very happy,\u201d Claver Sango said Sunday, through an interpreter. \u201cIn the refugee camp, I had no hope, no dream of having my own home.\u201d<\/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

\u201cImmigrants have so much to offer, and they have so much to overcome \u2014 language, culture differences,\u201d said Monsignor Fred Leising of Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church. \u201cSo we wanted to help them better integrate in the community and welcome them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read full story on Buffalo News<\/a>\u2014><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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