Tag: Refugees

  • Refugee Students Explore Food Justice With Cameras

    During the month of July, students in The AjA Project‘s food justice workshop at Crawford High School explored cultural relationships to food. Through photo exercises and discussions, students considered the things that make their families’ food traditions unique and important, as well as how those traditions have and have not changed since coming to America.…

  • Locals Discuss Famine in Somalia

    By Megan Burke and Marueen Cavanaugh A 10-ton shipment of peanut-butter based nutritional paste landed today in Mogadishu for famine-victims in Somalia. Thousands of starving Somalis escape from their lawless country every day in an effort to get help at refugee camps in neighboring Kenya. It’s estimated at least 18-thousand children inside Somalia are suffering…

  • Local Somalis Raising Money For Famine Victims Back Home

    By Amita Sharma Local Somalis are calling on all San Diegans to help raise money for famine relief in Somalia. The Somali Youth League of San Diego plans to hold a fund-raising banquet on Aug. 12. The money will be used to buy food packets to send to Somalia. Abdimalik Buul, who is chairman of…

  • Tweet City Heights: NFL Honors School Success, State Could Soon

    By Megan Burks Hoover High Teacher Compared to The Blind Side’s Sandra Bullock Former Chargers and Philidelphia Eagles player Burt Grossman was named the NFL Teacher of the Year last month for his work with at-risk teens at Hoover High School. The Union-Tribune has a story on Grossman’s journey from a tough neighborhood, to the…

  • School District Offers Plan For Black Achievement

    By Emily Alpert San Diego Unified is rolling out a new plan to bolster the achievement of African-American and African students, groups that have traditionally lagged academically and are disproportionately likely to be disciplined or labeled with a disability. Its goal is to chip away at the racial achievement gap. The $3.5 million plan is…