NSC in the News: Nepalese Refugees Blace a Trail in Philadelphia (Inquirer)
NEPALESE REFUGEES BLAZE A TRAIL IN PHILADELPHIA
The alarm clock’s 3 a.m. ring awakened 50-year-old Rudra Kuikel and his eldest daughter, Thagi, 22, in their lightly furnished South Philadelphia apartment.
An hour later they were in a van along with other immigrants headed for the Swedesboro packaged-food plant where father and daughter, working side by side, chopped lettuce for eight hours, netting $50 each after taxes and paying $5 each for transportation.
