Stories
Involved & create better Condition for Somalis in Massachusetts
Involved & create better Condition for Somalis in Massachusetts
Somali American Youth Parents Association (SAYPA) is a place where the Somali community can come to mingle ones a month also exchange ideas about life in the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Get community-targeted scholarship information for the youth, provide a forum for the community to help straggling family financially or readjusting changing life in America.
SAYPA.ORG Continue reading
Sometimes we are so focused on saving our birth country that we forget how much our adopted country, the United States has done for us. There is no day that passes by that i don’t feel grateful and blessed to live here. The generosity of the people of the United States is amazing. Continue reading “Happy Birthday America/ Student at The Ohio State University”
The Somali Students associatio
Continue reading “Happy Independence Day of Somalia/Somali Students Association UMASS Boston”
Somalian-American student Munira Khalif (pictured) can add her name to the list of students who have been accepted to all eight Ivy League schoolsAttending Mounds Park Academy in St. Paul, Minn., 17-year-old Khalif says the news of her prestigious acceptances caught her by “surprise.”
Continue reading “Minnesota high school senior accepted to all eight Ivy League schools”
Those who know 18-year-old Fatah Adan say he acquired his sense of humor and equanimity from his mother, Habibo Osman, and father, Abdi Adan Hussein. Continue reading “From refugee camp to top of his class”
Somali Student Association – Northeastern University is within the mission of the Somali Student Association to create a linkage between Somali college students and professionals within the greater Boston area. Continue reading “Northeastern Somali Student Association”
Tired of trying to keep track of assignments and exams as a student at St. Cloud State University, one computer science major decided to take matters into his own hand and create a mobile app to do it for him. Continue reading “Young Somali Student at St. Cloud State University Creates App to help College Students”
Rainier Beach graduate Ahlaam Ibraahim got a full scholarship to the University of Washington. The 18-year-old Somali American has started a group to help students with application and financial-aid paperwork. She wants others to believe, “If Ahlaam can do it, so can I.” Continue reading “UW Somali American student launches group to help would-be college students”
.When was Halima Aden was born in a Kenyan refugee camp 19 years ago, no one thought she’d have a chance to be Miss Minnesota USA. But when she was six, her parents emigrated to the United States and found a new home in a Somali-American immigrant community in Minnesota. Now, Aden is proudly representing both sides of her heritage as the first Somali-American to ever compete in the Miss Minnesota USA pageant. Continue reading “Halima Aden Breaks Ground As First Somali-American To Compete For Miss Minnesota USA”
A teenager from Bristol is set to become one of the youngest doctorate holders in the city – before she has gone to university. Fahma Mohamed will be awarded the Doctor of Laws by Bristol University – an honorary degree acknowledging her campaigning work to end female genital mutilation (FGM). Continue reading “Bristol teenager to be one of the youngest in the UK to receive doctorate”
Abdisamad Muhiyadin Adan, a 20-year-old Somali student from Hargeisa, has been accepted into Harvard’s freshman Class of 2019 on full scholarship. Abdisamad graduated from Abaarso School of Science and Technology, a competitive school that is it trying to “[establish] an elite Somali educational institution to lead the development of future Somali leaders for the decades to come,” according to its website. Continue reading “From Hargeisa to Harvard: Somali student’s journey to college”
Fatuma Mohamed has been in the United States for only nine years. But what this young student, who came from Ifo refugee camp when she was 10 years old, did in those few years is quite phenomenal to say the least.
