Pingala Dhital, who fled from Bhutan and lived in a refugee camp in Nepal from 1991 to 2008, resettled in Spokane and worked with World Relief for 14 years.
In 2021, Innovia offered $250,000 for her to start a program for refugee women. Those funds followed the project as she moved from World Relief to Refugee and Immigrant Connections of Spokane in 2022 and then came on staff at Thrive International—where former World Relief director Mark Finney became director.
Pingala met with others to explore what refugee women needed. There were already English language and social service programs, so they looked for what would be unique.. . . .