But for Miss Abdi Nur, the opportunity to make a financial contribution to the country where she sought refuge feels as unlikely now as it did when she arrived five years ago.

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To mobilise that wonderful diaspora to make a contribution to the future of our country is a massive thing.

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"We urge those that are yet to take decisions to consider the positive contribution that museums make to people in towns and cities across the country and consider the creative and innovative ways to deliver cultural services, " he added.

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You said something that touched us, and that was that you did not see Latin America as a problem, or Latin Americans living in the United States as a problem, but the country as a contribution, as a supplement to the dynamics that make the U.S. what they are today.

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In modern America, Muslims can make a big contribution to debates about greed and social justice, while fully respecting the country's secular constitution.

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