“Once she said she was from Catholic Charities, I heard angels singing,” Tom laughs, remembering the moment back in 2016 when he first met Grace, a Job Developer in Catholic Charities’ Refugee Services Program.
Hussain trekked through seven countries before making his way to the Unaccompanied Minor Program in Phoenix in May 2015 at the age of 17. At that time, he says he knew about five sentences in English. Ever inventive, he studied courses on YouTube, and he was able to test out of a number of classes. Within one year, he was mostly fluent in English and graduated from high school.