New Faces, New City

UAA student helps Tonga gain a library

For Kato Ha'unga, too many books is not enough. The woman's a little obsessed. But then these are books with a purpose. If she can make it happen -- and she's confident she can -- these are books bound for Tonga. A tsunami of books inspired by a tsunami.

NEW FACES, NEW CITY

Flight for life: Young mom tries to find her place

Stepheni Hawk is 21, on her way to her first serious job, first real way to pay for her own place, to buy groceries and toys for her little girl. It's taken two years to get this far, two years since she moved to Anchorage to escape the villages where she was raised.

Audio Slide Show: Stepheni Hawk

NEW FACES, NEW CITY

Child's cancer treatment spans two worlds

In a community where many are poor and uneasy with English-speaking culture, some view doctors with suspicion, as expensive and alien. For them, a shaman may function as a primary health care practitioner, a choice of tradition over science that can turn deadly when an illness grows serious.

From Darfur to a strange new home

Safi Ali fled militiamen across desert land in Sudan, carrying only water on his back. The sun set and rose so many times, he stopped counting. In Chad, he slept in refugee camps plagued with sickness, starvation and flies. He's moved from city to city, through Africa and the Middle East, searching for work and the lost faces of his family.

TALES OF THE CITY

Tibetan exiles find kindred spirits in Anchorage

Lobsang Dorjee has never seen Tibet, the land where his parents grew up. He has never seen the faces of the aunts, uncles and cousins left behind. He knows them only through stories.

Multiethnic but single-minded

When Liz Posey, Jonathan Teeters, Kokayi and Toccarra Nosakhere took their seats in a small Midtown boardroom on a recent snowy afternoon, it wasn't to talk corporate strategy, it was to plot a revolution.

A most generous soul

Duck out of the cold and into the tiny corner gas station on West International Airport Road at the right time of day, and chances are you'll run into a woman in a ball gown.

Across continents and cultures, a family grows

Rafael Martinez, of a rural Mexican village, followed opportunity to Anchorage in 1997 and took a job at Burger King. On the way to work one day, he found a woman named Josephine Lott.