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Some Manitoba refugees were all smiles while they practise their skills for the benefit of others.<\/p>\n

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The 19 men are Red River College’s Language Training Centre’s Pathway Program to Construction Skills students and spend a day helping out with a Habitat for Humanity home located at 2003 Ross Ave. W.<\/div>\n

The 19 men are Red River College’s Language Training Centre’s Pathway Program to Construction Skills students and spend a day helping out with a Habitat for Humanity home located at 2003 Ross Ave. W.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Ligia Braidotti\nRed River College\u2019s Language Training Centre\u2019s Pathway Program to Construction Skills students were thrilled to help with landscaping at a Habitat for Humanity home located at 2003 Ross Ave. W.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n

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Tahir Ali, from Eritrea, is one of the students engaged in the building of the house. He used to work in construction back home and said the only difference is that there is some language barrier.<\/p>

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Photo by Ligia Braidotti\nRed River College\u2019s Language Training Centre\u2019s Pathway Program to Construction Skills students Martin Mukendi, Masuku Walo, Yannick Lubembele and Kadar Ahmed put their skills into practice.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>
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Photo by Ligia Braidotti\nRed River College\u2019s Language Training Centre\u2019s Pathway Program to Construction Skills students helped out with landscaping and masonry at a Habitat for Humanity home located at 2003 Ross Ave. W.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>
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Photo by Ligia Braidotti\nStudents learn about new tools and terminology with hands-on experience at a Habitat for Humanity home.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":262293343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_classifai_error":"","_classifai_text_to_speech_error":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14],"tags":[],"education-subject":[],"media-literacy-topic":[],"post_topic":[],"content_type":[24],"class_list":["post-452522053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-times"],"acf":{"short_title":"","seo_title":"","deck":"RRC Language Centre\u2019s newcomer students help out at Habitat for Humanity home","story_tag":"","byline":"Ligia Braidotti","updates":null},"apple_news_notices":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/times\/2017\/10\/23\/more-hands-on-experience-for-refugees","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"More hands-on experience for refugees","url":"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/times\/2017\/10\/23\/more-hands-on-experience-for-refugees","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/times\/2017\/10\/23\/more-hands-on-experience-for-refugees"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/lb-rrcrefugees4-oct25.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/our-communities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/04\/lb-rrcrefugees4-oct25.jpg"},"articleSection":"News","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"feedloaderapi"}],"creator":["feedloaderapi"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Our Communities","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2017-10-23T16:52:00Z","datePublished":"2017-10-23T16:52:00Z","dateModified":"2017-10-23T16:56:48Z"},"rendered":"