AAUW supports U.N. refugee women at farmers market

FALLBROOK – Fallbrook AAUW members took a field trip to the City Terrace Farmer’s Market in City Heights to support legal refugees brought here with the approval of the U.S. State Department and the United Nations. The refugees are from a variety of countries including, but not limited to, Benin in West Africa, Kenya, El Salvador, Iraq, Afghanistan, Honduras and Mexico.

Donated items were delivered to them, some of which were warm blankets, bedding, kitchen items, shoes, soaps, jackets. The women received micro loans to start businesses to become self supporting. Some sold food which was...