Somali Kids Project: Being Somali-American
Our project involves four phases.

  1. Learning facts about the United States
    and Somalia.  We learned about
    geography, daily life and symbols of each
    place.  We also developed our own
    symbols to represent us a Somali-
    Americans.  Go to the Our Symbols page
    to see the symbols we created.
  2. We read stories about children who had
    moved From Africa to the United States.  
    We had discussions about things that
    were hard for them and things that could
    be done to make their lives easier.  Some
    of the kids in our group were immigrants
    and could tell us what it was like when
    they first came to the United States.  Go
    to the Bibliography page for information
    on these books.
  3. We wrote interview questions and
    interviewed Somali community members.
  4. We thought about everything we had
    learned and wrote tip sheets to help
    people make life easier for people who
    come to the  United States from Somalia.
Our Interview Questions:

  1. Where did you grow up?
  2. Can you tell us about a happy time that you
    remember from when you were a child?
  3. Why did you leave Somalia?
  4. How old were you and did you come with
    anyone?
  5. What was hard about leaving Somalia?
  6. How was the food different?
  7. What do you like about the United States?
  8. Are there things that are hard for you in the
    United States?
  9. What could someone do to help make your
    adjustment to life in the United States easier?
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If people come together, they can even mend a crack in the sky.
-Somali Proverb