‘Connect To Success’ Program Helps Young Resettled Refugees Navigate Work And School

Joy Muhoza, 22, at Refuge Coffee Co. in Clarkston, GA. She’s one of the first participants in the Connect to Success program.

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Joyeuse Muhoza already finished high school when she came to Georgia when she was 17 years old. Originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, she was ready to start life in a new country.  

She didn’t expect her first job to be working in a chicken plant in north Georgia.

“You have to keep doing the same thing over and over again, which kind of hurts your body,” Muhoza says, now 22 years old.