City hopes to help refugees, immigrants find local employment

Refugees and immigrants have a hard time finding local work, which creates many problems for them, including time to learn English and assimilate into the culture.    - - Donna Poisl

By KATIE BRANDENBURG, The Daily News 

The city of Bowling Green is trying to connect members of the refugee and immigrant populations to employers with a Refugee and Immigrant Job Development Forum on Thursday.

Many immigrants and refugees living in the Bowling Green area have round-trip commutes of up to four hours to get to jobs outside the city, International Communities Liaison Leyda Becker said.

If those people were able to find work closer to home, they would be able to invest that extra time into other activities, such as taking English language classes, spending more time with their families and taking part in city activities that could help them become more integrated into city life, she said.

“I think it’s just a matter of connecting the two – the employers and the refugees – and facilitating that process,” Becker said.
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