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Somalis in Colorado

by Alejandro Hernández on April 23, 2024

Miriam Mohamed works on her vocabulary words during tutoring session 1993

Teacher, Norma Trujillo goes over colors with her class of Somali Bantu refugees.

In the cafeteria of Whiteman Elementary school Somali Bantu refugee women gather wearing their traditional dress to learn English in a special class.

Denver, Colo. shot on 3/9/05 Zahara Omar, 22 looks out on the streets of Denver. There is snow outside and she will make use of the donation at the ACC to keep warm.

Denver, Colo. shot on 3/8/05) Chairman of the Somali Bantu refugees, Abubakar Rasulo (c) (cq) talks with new and older arrivals Yussuf Fummalo,(cq) with wife Faduma Aziz,28 (cq) (l) who has been here 8 months and Dahirra Adan Ali, (cq) (r) who has just

Garden being created by the Somali Bantu refugees. That garden isn't open yet, but there is a Somali Bantu woman named Halima Abdi who has a plot at the Fairview Garden. She and her family were farmers in Somalia.

Denver, Colo. shot on 3/9/05) Ambiya Bule, 32 has been in Denver for 6 months. She leaves the ACC job search class and heads to the Emily Griffith Opportunity Sch. for classes there.

Denver, Colo. shot on 3/9/05) Amy McGuire, is a DU graduate student who comes to the ACC to help refugees like Zahara Omar, 22 (far r) learn English and the finesse of filling out a job application.

Somali refugee Ubed Hussein wipes the mouth of his 2-year-old child, Abdirahman, after lunch. Hussein is worried about the rent increase his family will face in July. He has a job at Denver International Airport, but he doesn't earn enough to cover the rent increase and food for his family of four.

The first graduating class of 2007 for the Denver Police Citizens Academy including Somali immigrant Rusulo Rusulo, far left, pose for a group picture after receiving their certificates of graduation at the Denver Police Academy.

Abdullahi Abdirahman, a Somali community leader in Greeley, spoke to the Muslim Swift workers about the negotations between the company and the workers regarding their break times on Monday at Lincoln Park.

nd as part of a traditional Somali Bantu dance at Washington Park in Denver, on July 1st, 2007. The African Community Center of Denver introduces newly arriving refugees to American holidays and traditions.

Greeley JBS Swift meatpacking plant Muslim employees congregate in Lincoln Park

11 year-old Shafera Guhed holds a dollar in her mouth as part of a traditional Somali Bantu dance on Washington Park in Denver, on July 1st, 2007.

Somali refugee Hawa Mohammed (cq), a jobless single mother of 4, tries to register for an annual job fair sponsored by the Colorado Department of Labor at the Colorado Convention Center September 25, 2008

Somali Bantu refugee Halima Abdi, cq, 23, winds a hose at her plot in the Fairview Garden at Decatur St. and 12th in Denver Thursday July 21, 2005.

Sahra Bashir, 16, from Somalia

Hawa Musa, 2, lays on the couch in her parents, Denver apartment Tuesday. Her father, Amir Amir and mother, Amina Rasulo are from Somalia.

Rasulo Rasulo of Somalia will be graduating from the Denver Police Citizens Academy Wednesday. He has been in Denver nearly three years.

(DENVER, Colo., August 30, 2004) Abduhl Hajy, Somalia, and muslim, takes time out to pray in a make shift mosque on the property of the cabstand location allowing weather controlled area for those followers to pray.

Abdirah Man, cq, from left, who hails from Ethiopia, Omar Addow, cq, from Somalia, and Augustino Majok, cq, from Sudan, raise their hands as they are sworn in as United States Citizens in Civic Center Park's Greek Amphitheater in Denver, Colo., on Tuesday

Rasulo Rasulo laughs as he sits next to his wife, Habiba Talasow, left, and niece, Hawa Musa, 2, Tuesday at Rasulo's sister and brother in law's Denver apartment.

LaLa Ali, 6, a refugee from Somalia looks over dishes as she makes her way down the food line with her mother Faduma during the Refugees' First Thanksgiving event at the African Community Center in Denver Tuesday Nov. 25, 2008.

16 year-old Sahra Bashir from Somalia dances to some East African Music, as fellow Somalians, 47 year-old Bare Munye (at left) and 24 year-old Bashir Ararso (cq) from the Sabaree Africa Cultural Organization.

Saharo Abdulle, who hails from Somalia, joins close to 600 other immigrants for a naturalization ceremony in Civic Center Park's Greek Amphitheater in Denver, Colo., on Tuesday.

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