Boston City TV, MA Mayor's Office of Immigrant Advancement (MOIA), 13 Sep 2021

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From YouTube: Dreamers Fellowship

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We want to ensure our City's youth all have the same opportunities for personal and professional development. The Dreamers Fellowship provides leadership and work-readiness experience to immigrant youth, regardless of immigration status.

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I emigrated from brazil and I came to the us when I was around nine. I.

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Immigrated from haiti I came to in the u.s in 2019. I.

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Come from bangladesh and I came march 4 2020. me.

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And my family came from brazil when I was one-year-old back in about 2005.. I.

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Came to us at the age of 3 from guatemala, I was raised in an orphanage.

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We have a group of young people, dreamers who came to this country as children without having permanent immigration status because of that status, they don't qualify for the youth jobs program, and so that's why we created this very unique program.

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We've been dedicated to making sure that young people have job opportunities, and the dreamer program gives a group of young people who haven't had that opportunity, a sense of being able to get connected to work, get connected to leadership development and really give them an opportunity to explore. What's next.

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One of the goals that I wanted to achieve at the end of my time, the program was to just get better at communication. We had specific workshops about communication and job training as well, and now I feel that I'm able to incorporate that into my life in the future. What.

D

Convinced me about this program to join is the fact that I would be surrounding myself with people who are in a similar situation. As me, I think that was a very comforting thing for me.

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The hope is that um there isn't a gap that exists where you know. Immigrant families are searching for ways to engage their young people and equity is at the forefront of everything that the city of boston tries to do.

I

The activities we provide around youth development are meant to give them tangible life skills that will help them to advance themselves as they they move on to through high school and into college.

C

This program makes me more confident more stronger as a public speaker with speaking people, understanding people and share my ideas.

B

I want to be an entrepreneur and to be an entrepreneur. You have to like um tell your ideas in front of a lot of people and with the program I got to expand myself express myself and make sure that I can convince someone when I want to say something. The.

A

Skills I've learned here will help me succeed because they've taught me what it takes to really be a leader and what it takes to get a job. When you're you don't have the same privileges as everyone else, when you're undocumented.

J

It's incredible to see the transformation from the beginning to the end of the program. We feel that the german fellowship program will provide a lessen the disadvantages that exist and it brings opportunity to the youth that they don't have advice.

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Our dreamers are really a tremendous resource and we are blessed as a society to have young people. This eager- and this focused to be a part of our society.

B

My future is going to be better and more interesting.

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I am confident that I make the right decision to be a dreamer. I.

A

Hope I get to work with them again, because I really enjoy the experience and I hope I can bring other people in to have the same experience and help them out this.

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Program has definitely made me a more confident person and more outgoing person. I feel like I already had that, but it definitely enhanced it. This.

D

Program has helped me a whole ton with you know, accepting who I am also that you know one day. I can take the skills that I've learned at this program and hopefully do something really amazing in the future.

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Immigrants drive the labor force here in boston and make boston the beautiful, diverse place that it is. They reinvent our cities. They make it better. So we all benefit from this program and that's why it's so important to invest in.

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