Tuesday, February 16, 2010

East African Women's Center scrambles to survive

Funding cuts are causing this women's center to make cuts to the programs. Mothers and children are learning how to function successfully in this new culture, a necessary lesson for all immigrants. - - Donna Poisl

By Cynthia Boyd

It's a little tricky finding the East African Women's Center, housed as it is in a one-story building in a winter-cloaked courtyard engulfed by high-rise apartments in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis.

Tricky that is until to you see red and yellow playground equipment and a walkway worn clear of snow by the feet of mothers and their children. In a real way, this is their pathway to the American dream.
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