Rwanda http://nwpr.org en A Young Refugee Searches for a Place in Idaho’s Reshaped Economy http://nwpr.org/post/young-refugee-searches-place-idaho%E2%80%99s-reshaped-economy <p>Most days, Nowela Virginie and her two young daughters are here, in her small apartment just off a busy thoroughfare on the outskirts of Boise.</p><p>Virginie is 23, and she arrived in Boise three years ago. She was born in Rwanda, but spent 16 years of her life in a refugee camp in Tanzania. She remembers the shock of finding herself in a new city, a place that looked nothing like anywhere she&rsquo;d ever been. &quot;When I coming USA, nobody can explain to me how USA is to look like, nobody can explain to me,&quot; she says.</p> Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:27:18 +0000 2250 at http://nwpr.org A Young Refugee Searches for a Place in Idaho’s Reshaped Economy