By Doug Fabrizio
Salt Lake City, UT – The United States offered homes for Bantu Muslims fleeing the Somalian civil war. RadioWest looks the journey that brought them here and the struggle to recreate an existence so far from home. Doug talks to Aden Batar of Catholic Community Services and Awad Gure, a Bantu who now makes his home in Salt Lake City.
Resources mentioned during this program:
- Catholic Community Services, 801-428-1254
- International Rescue Committee
- Jewish Family Services
- February 17, Salt Lake City School District Educator Workshop on Somali Bantu. Call Larry Brotxon, (801)554-7319
- February 26, 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Somali Bantu Cultural Celebration, Rowland Hall St Mark's