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Father Work: Study Music and Refugee Families

father work: My mother and father work 12-hour shifts and still sometimes we don't get enough food at home to last us a week, said Modi, a Fargo North High School senior who plans to study music and theatre in college next year, according to Metro News. She and a group of other students, most from poor refugee families, spent the Thursday before Thanksgiving handing out turkey and cranberries to the hungry of Fargo, which welcomed their arrival from places such as Nepal, Sudan and Liberia. She and her seven siblings know what it is like to be hungry. The students, nearly all of whom qualify for free or reduced-price school lunches, recently opened a food pantry as part of the Legacy Children's Foundation, a non-profit that helps them earn diplomas while finding out what they're good at doing. There are people on the street there who are eating from garbage. I come from a little, poor country, said Fargo North sophomore Puja Chhertri, one of the food pantry organizers whose family emigrated from Nepal. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.