Statewide Iowa — Iowa is expecting several hundred refugees from Afghanistan to come to the state to resettle.
Bethany Kohoutek works for Lutheran Services of Iowa one of the agencies helping coordinate the resettlement.
Kohoutek doesn’t have a specific timetable for when the refugees will arrive. She says they are being processed and vetted at U.S. military bases.
Kohoutek expects finding housing for the Afghan refugees to be a challenge.
Kohoutek says there are plenty of job openings across the state, so that shouldn’t be an issue for refugees. Mercedes Dimas of the Mary Tregalia Community House in Sioux City will be helping the refugees when they arrive.
She says the first eleven could arrive in one to two weeks and she is trying to line up volunteers.
You can find out more about the resettlement on the LSI website, www.lsiowa.org.
