These two students, who were tutored by the residents of this retirement community when they first moved here, are now learning about a possible career in social work. DP
by Amanda Palleschi
Two Mechanicsburg High School students spent the day shadowing employees at Messiah Village in Mechanicsburg as part of the high school's career shadowing program.
Ekram Ali, 18, and Shartu Usman, 17, sisters who moved to the United States from Ethiopia five years ago, got involved with Messiah Village through a tutoring program for Somalian and Ethiopian immigrants called the Somali Refugee Tutoring Program.
The program was founded by Madina Hasson, a Somali immigrant who founded the nonprofit Somali Community of Central Pennsylvania. Messiah Village residents like Ruth Kumler, 80, began tutoring through the program this year.
Kumler and a few fellow Messiah Village residents, many of them retired Mechanicsburg teachers, decided to become tutors in Hasson's program in September, traveling to Mechanicsburg Middle School two afternoons a week to help the students with homework.
Ali and Usman began thinking about post-high school plans and careers thanks in part to Kumler. On Monday, they visited Kumler at Messiah Village as part of Mechanicsburg High School's Project Dreams career shadowing program. Usman shadowed in the center's accounting department, while Ali learned about social work in the residential living department.
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