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Posts Tagged ‘displaced’

From Iraq to El Salvador, refugee children shine at Oakland Olympics

By Tawanda Kanhema | August 13, 2012

Forget about the London Olympics. Friday, the real Olympic fun was right here in Oakland at Soccer Without Borders’ Oakland Olympics, an annual event bringing together displaced refugee children between the ages of 5 and 19 years old from Bhutan, Iraq, Nepal, Gabon, the Ivory Coast and El Salvador, among other countries.

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