From empty streets to community prosperity: How the Hazara community changed Adelaide's Prospect Road

From empty streets to community prosperity: How the Hazara community changed Adelaide's Prospect Road
AprApril 2021 at 12:11pm
Hanif Rahimi says he couldn't have foreseen the changes in Prospect Road when he migrated to Adelaide in 2001.
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Empty streets, closed shops, and broken glass on pavements — that's what Hanif Rahimi recalls of Prospect Road, in the inner northern suburbs of Adelaide, just two decades ago.
He'd just arrived in South Australia with his family, and what's now been called
Little Afghanistan was far from anything he thought possible.
"After, let's say, six, seven o'clock in the evening, not many people were walking on the streets because they were scared. It wasn't safe," Mr Rahimi told the ABC.

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