How Emma’s Torch Is Changing the Lives of Its Refugee Workers
One recent evening after closing time, six young restaurant workers and their families huddled around tables inside a new coffee shop in Northeast DC. They tucked into plates of food while chatting in several languages. Some couldn’t communicate much with one another, but they were in a joyful mood. All recently arrived refugees and asylum seekers, they’d just finished an 11-week course at Emma’s Torch, a combination cafe and workforce-development center that trains and certifies recent arrivals and gets them jobs in the restaurant industry…Read More
