One San Diego resident has floor-to-ceiling stacks of donations that have overtaken her living room in her mission to help Afghan refugees resettle in an entirely new place.
On a Wednesday morning, Sharif, Ali and Raziq are gathered in Cummings' kitchen, talking about the woman who has helped them so much. All three are Afghan refugees who have come to San Diego in the last six months after flying to Brazil and making the journey on foot, and sometimes by car, to the border.
Sharif and Ali both have wives and kids they have left behind in Afghanistan. Sharif said his daughter is in sixth grade, and unless he can get his asylum case approved, next year she will no longer be allowed to attend school due to Taliban rules. The three men are all in various stages of their asylum cases but said that Cummings has been an enormous help to them, driving them to medical appointments, court cases and odd jobs to help them make ends meet."When I arrived here, she is treating me like a mother calling me: 'Where are you? Do you have food? Do you have a place to live? Are you homeless?'" said Sharif.
The men said they don't know how they can ever repay Cummings for her kindness and generosity. They hope that eventually, when their asylum cases are processed, they can be reunited with their families in the U.S., and they said they want to work for the rest of their lives helping Barbara with her mission.
Cummings said she is still in great need of money for food to help the refugees and she is always looking for people who might have an extra room in their home who may be able to take a refugee in while they wait for their work permits.
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