Tag: Somali

  • 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: Feral Dogs, Fried Brain Cells and Free Lunch

    By Megan Burks While we’re out researching and writing full-length features, 140 characters can go a long way in helping us keep readers up-to-date. But some tweets deserve more than that. That’s why I’m beginning a weekly feature here on SpeakCityHeights.org called Tweet City Heights. Each Friday, I’ll bring you the week’s Twitter chatter as…

  • A Long, Unlikely Road to Stanford

    Photo Credit: Kyla Calvert By Kyla Calvert On the last Friday of the school year, seniors at Crawford Invention and Design Educational Academy in City Heights are lined up for a barbecue. Later in the afternoon they’ll rehearse for graduation. Like most high school grads, they’ll hear from their valedictorian, Idris Ahmed, whose speech is…

  • Pulling Themselves, and Each other, Out of Poverty

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido Published February 17, 2011 on When Hamun Yussuf was a girl, a vicious civil war broke out in Somalia, her home. Many of the men in her tribe left to fight. A lot never returned. Yussuf’s family fled to Kenya, where her mother worked at a shop while…

  • Somalis Adjust to U.S. Life, But Integration and Jobs Still Problems

    By Amita Sharma Published September 28, 2010 on Photo Courtesy of Amina Farrah   It was 2 o’clock in the morning back in 1988. Amina Farah was about to go from a middle-class mother with a house and a job at the Central Bank of Somalia to refugee. Civil war had just erupted. The dark…