Iraqi Refugee Finds Welcoming Home In Billings, Montana at Paradigm Group

"Billings, Montana is small by size, very big by heart."

Driving to work one dark morning in February, Rob Hunter caught an NPR story about an Iraqi refugee struggling to find work in Florida. The young man, identified as Bahjat, had endured death threats and a car bombing because of his work with U.S. contractors. He was an IT specialist with a degree in civil engineering, yet the only job he’d been offered was cleaning hotel rooms for $7 an hour, not enough to support his mother and sister.

Hunter was far away, in Billings, Mont., but he felt pulled by a mixture of civic duty and religious faith.

by Jennifer Ludden

Full Story: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92845163&ft=1&f=1006

Paradigm Group http://www.paradigmconnect.com/Paradigm_Consult/para_consult.html