"Rayaan Ahmed has worked to bring mutual aid to students in Minnesota and Somalia as they are learning to address public service, social issues and other important life skills." Link to Article
Credit to Nick Erickson from GW Today for this article
"When Rayaan Ahmed’s mother sought refuge from her native Somalia in 1999, hundreds of thousands of her fellow countrymen and women had died of disease, starvation and other consequences of the still ongoing Somali Civil War. But before that, her point of refuge within her embattled country was an after-school program that served as a sanctuary for students and their families.
Amid the painful reality of the hardships already had and all that were to come, this program in Mogadishu taught students valuable life lessons of and important skills while incorporating a system of mutual aid to not only survive, but to thrive and grow as a community during wartime."
