Today Somali refugees make up the largest group among Utah's 65,000 refugees, according to the Department of Workforce Services, which oversees Utah Refugee Services Office.
the country. He lived in a refugee camp in neighboring Kenya for six years before coming to Utah as a refugee.
Director Abdirizak Ibrahim poses at the Somali Community Self-Management Agency in Salt Lake City on Jan. 26. He founded the Somali Community Self-Management Agency to address those difficulties and partnered with Salt Lake American Refugee Services in 2010 after struggling to navigate the American grant system.
Hasnain and Ibrahim said their programs fill a gap other refugee organizations haven't been able to bridge. Although there are a number of programs that offer English classes in Utah, Hasnain said they often didn't meet the immediate needs of Somali refugees. This motivated him to put together a "survival" English class.
"People can go work and do a lot of stuff, but the most difficulty people have is language," she said. "Most people don't even have low . They haven't gone to school in Africa because of civil wars and all that stuff — you go to a refugee camp and you have to raise your kids. A lot of people didn't come from like a big city in Africa or a big city in Somalia. So there was a lot of need. When we saw that need, we started with the classes.
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