Avon's calling immigrants

Company teams up with aid agency to help refugees, expand sales

By Robert Preer

Globe Correspondent / November 23, 2007

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Wherever she goes, Isatu Peters is on the lookout for a sale. The 22-year-old native of Sierra Leone, who works as a housekeeper at the Marriott hotel in Cambridge and braids hair at a Lynn salon, keeps Avon catalogs with her to give to people she meets. The Lynn resident also hands out catalogs to neighbors, some of whom are ... (Full article: 868 words)