Tag: Somali Refugee

  • More Refugee Girls Are College Bound, Flipping the Cultural Script

    Refugee children participate in an after-school tutoring program at the Somali Bantu Association of America in City Heights. The Somali Bantu ethnic minority group came to the United States more recently than Somalis who traveled here in the 1990s. Because they’re still gaining their footing on U.S. soil, their children are at high risk of…

  • San Diego’s Somali Population: Explained

    Habibo, a Somali refugee, writes: “The first day I came to U.S.A. was hard for me. Leave my sister in Kenya. My friends. Airplane. Leaving them forever. Excited We came in San Diego and I was scared. The first day school was scary because I did not see white people before.” | Photo Credit: Habibo,…

  • A Dangerous City Heights Intersection’s New Crosswalk

    Somali men in City Heights’ Colina Park neighborhood stood around Thursday assessing a new crosswalk city workers painted across a dangerous stretch of University Avenue. | Photo Credit: Adrian Florido By Adrian Florido Nur Kahir juggles dual roles at the southwestern corner of University Avenue and 50th Street in the Colina Park neighborhood of City…