Founded in 2021 by Army veterans Aaron Estabrook and Fatima Jaghoori, the Manhattan Area Resettlement Team handles integrating refugees from Afghanistan — and other countries — into Manhattan.
MART executive director Virginia Rodriguez said the organization’s main program is focused on employability.
“(We) help our refugees to seek employment, to help them build resumes, to help them understand their rights in an employment place,” Rodriguez said. “We help them position in whatever industry they are need to and we also help them move, when they are ready, to another job.”
