College student refugees placed in careers with new program

SALT LAKE CITY — When Arob Mandang-Belabek started his freshman year at the University of Utah, he felt very alone. It was difficult to study economics, he said, while living in Utah as a refugee from South Sudan."I was paying for school by myself, I was working. So it was very hard to focus on school," he said.But things changed after he learned about the Refugee Education Initiative, a Salt Lake nonprofit dedicated to helping refugees graduate from universities."It’s made me feel l