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CanopyNWA Refugee Resettlement Center

J. Froelich
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Left: Emily Crane Linn and Pastor Clint Schnekloth stand inside the sanctuary of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Fayetteville, where Canopy is currently headquartered. Right: Refugee, Faez Arso, fled Mosul, Iraq in 2014, and is now living in Springdale.

Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service-affiliated non-profit resettlement group is taking root in northwest Arkansas. Later this year, pending approval from the U.S. State Department, Canopy Northwest Arkansas plans to resettle a hundred refugees a year from war-ravaged places such as Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan in the Fayetteville area. But not all Arkansas political leaders are on board.

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.
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