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Christine Ntagengwa
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Christine Ntagengwa

Christine Ntagengwa is Coordinator of the New American Integration Program (NAIP) at the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy (MIRA) Coalition. Displaced by the 1994 genocide in her native Rwanda, Ms. Ntagengwa came to the United States in 2000.

From 2004 to 2014 she worked at the Refugee Immigration Ministry in Malden, Massachusetts, starting as a case manager and becoming Associate Director in 2013. She joined MIRA in 2014 as Coordinator of NAIP, an AmeriCorps program jointly led by MIRA and the Massachusetts Office for Refugees and Immigrants (ORI) that places AmeriCorps members in 30 immigrant and refugee-serving organizations around Massachusetts to provide instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL), citizenship assistance, and community services.

Ms. Ntagengwa received her BA in divinity from Saint Paul’s United Theological College, Limaru, Kenya in 1999, and a master of social work from Boston University in 2012. She is a board member of the Chelsea Collaborative in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and a cofounder of Umunara, Inc. In 2008 she received the Unsung Heroine Award from ORI in recognition of her work helping “uprooted people.”

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March 2016

Challenges in Accessing Early Childhood Education and Care for Children in Refugee Families in Massachusetts

This report examines how refugee families in Massachusetts access early childhood education and care (ECEC) services for their children through the refugee resettlement system. It examines how working parents in refugee families navigate and make use of ECEC services and looks at the institutional and systemic challenges that refugee families face in accessing stable, high-quality ECEC options.