This co-op aims to help new immigrants, refugees settle smoothly in Salt Lake

This co-op aims to help new immigrants, refugees settle smoothly in Salt Lake

SALT LAKE CITY More than 70,000 refugees live here in Utah, and about 9 percent of the states population are immigrants.The growing number of people resettling in the Beehive State was the catalyst for the formation of a new program on Salt Lake Citys west side.When I first came here, there was no community. It was so hard; there was nobody to tell me what to do, where to go, said Puok Puok, who immigrated from South Sudan more than two decades …