The Refugee-Led Coalition Creating Collective Care (yesmagazine.org)
Already facing health and education gaps, refugees in San Diego banded together during the pandemic to define their own challenges and create their own solutions. Jama Ahmed Mohamed was 2 years old when his family fled the civil war in Mogadishu, Somalia, and escaped to a refugee camp in Kenya. This became his precarious home, where his family faced alienation and violence as displaced outsiders in the borderlands of two countries. “There’s this feeling of never being settled. …We would...