Hello, Ever since I have known about the crisis in Nigeria, where so many Nigerians are displaced in their own country and others are refugees in countries local to them such as in Chad, I have thought more and more about how I might help refugees in our local area.
My career work is with engineering firms. Currently I work in the Brighton part of Boston. My specialty is low voltage design for hospitals. I have worked in various parts of the world including the Middle East. This experience has helped me to appreciate the importance of good cultural and language interaction. I have volunteered on farms in our local area (as well as a farm not local to us) for a while now, and have learned some about farm skill needs. I have also learned from farm workers about their housing needs. I would like to form a micro-community in Lincoln that would help us as individuals and as a group to move forward good housing for our local farm workers and refugees who are skilled in farming and in aspects of food distribution. We can draw on our own knowledge base, as well as the Massachusetts and New England nonprofits that are working to find solutions for local farming and local refugees. I think it would be of value for us to develop our own plan for housing for farm workers / food distribution workers / refugees in our area. Thereby we might be able to positively influence the Massachusetts master farming / food plan and help refugees at the same time. Such housing could even be designed to incorporate at least some of the tools needed for skill development in our subject trades / disciplines. If you are interested would you please respond with your contact info, and we can get this "movement" going? Charlie Hamlin
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