Tesfa Program staff, Selam and Rachael, discuss the mission of the Tesfa Program and their initiative to share the stories of how the Ethiopian community in the Seattle area community navigated COVID-19. Topics: Ethiopia, Ethiopian, immigrant, refugee, Seattle, diaspora, Covid, epidemic, Tesfa, health, community, Amharic, pandemic
The pandemic has been hard on everyone — but how much harder is it in a country that's not your own, in a language you may not speak fluently or at all, in a system that may not understand your challenges? When COVID hit the Ethiopian community in Seattle, many immigrants found themselves without the social programs they relied on. The Tesfa program was created to help people stay informed about how to protect themselves from the disease. In this podcast, the founder of the Tesfa program interviews members of her community about how they were affected by the crisis, and how the community came together to support one another.
