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Friday, April 26
$15 buys a toy for a refugee child. $25 buys public transportation for a job interview. $50 pays a struggling family's electric bill for a month. It's all in the new gift catalog from Heartland Alliance, the Chicagoland nonprofit that helps poor people and refugees improve their lives.