Millete Birhanemaskel, a refugee, long-time Denver resident and businesswoman, grappled with 2020 as many others have: She tried to protect her family, her employees, her tenants from COVID’s reach. And she knew, too, what it was to live with uncertainty and powerlessness because each is a refugee’s emotional wallpaper. “As long as they’re missing, I can’t sleep, can’t focus, can’t enjoy anything because I keep having the most awful thoughts about what’s happening to them,” she says. From the comfort of her home in Denver, she says, she cannot pretend she isn’t caught in this war. “I have to try because my mind is the hardest place to be.”This story is part of a statewide reporting project from the Colorado News Collaborative called On Edge.

Source: Ethiopian News January 01, 2021 11:15 UTC