Issam, one of the original RefugeeWorks engineers was
placed by Welcome Bank Center of San Diego (WBC) as a volunteer at the County of San Diego several months
ago. Issam was named as the Dept. of Public Works Volunteer of the year,
he was awarded this month. Issam has been working to map San Diego
County flood plains.
On May 2nd, the WBC will be honoring participants who completed courses last year by awarding Certificates of Completion and State Senator Joel Anderson's office will be presenting Certificates of Achievement to the students as well. Gail Patterson, the direct of the WBC stated, "Grossmont College and WBC staff are proud of how hard our refugee professionals have worked to achieve- it really is amazing and inspiring."
In other news: The San Diego Scoop, a local newspaper, ran an article about refugee and immigrant foreign trained professionals in the paper and it was picked up by several of the other local papers in
San Diego http://www.scoopsandiego.com/news/local/a-new-life-for-foreign-trained-professional-at-grossmont-college/article_0a75dcf6-8d78-11e1-8b92-0019bb30f31a.html.
