About fifteen years ago, a few families emigrated from Somalia to the little town of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, now home to a thriving 800 family Somali population. Families came here due to the reasonable cost-of-living, rent-subsidized housing, and the availability of jobs for immigrants from East Africa.
This article from the Star Tribune states: “In response (to the influx of people from Somalia), the city has taken steps to make its new Somali residents feel more at home in the city’s schools and other public places. The library , for instance, now stocks Somali books and newspapers, and it has volunteers such as Khadra Duale, one of the first to move here at the end of the 1980s. Duale, who has a job in the city’s Office of Housing and Human Services, volunteers at the library to work with Somali women and introduce them to what the library has to offer.”
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