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Stephanie Wiechmann
According to MAARC, that's the Muncie Afghan Refugee Resettlement Committee, 10 families are now living in Muncie. That's 36 total Afghan citizens, with about half being children under the age of 18. In committee, spokesman Tony Sandleben says Muncie will welcome two more families in the next week and a half before the end of the year. That comes as officials at Indiana's Camp Atterbury say about 2500 refugees are still waiting to be settled as of late last week.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
Roughly 7200 Afghans lived in temporary housing on the Edinburgh base. The state says fewer than 150 of them have settled in Indiana, and Indiana hopes to ramp up resettlement sometime in January. In Muncie, as resettlements continue, the Muncie Human Rights Commission, in a statement, says the city has a moral and ethical responsibility to support these families after the risks they took to help U.S. military and humanitarians in Afghanistan.

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Stephanie Wiechmann
MAARC has been fundraising this fall with the goal of fully supporting resettled families in Muncie for the first six months. The committee has said that will cost $ 10,000 per family. At a meeting this week, MAARC reports it has raised $ 124,000 toward that goal. In Muncie, Stephanie Wiechmann, IPR news.