These immigrants from Ethiopia have settled in MN and have a new local group helping them learn how to live here. - - Donna Poisl
Written by Ben Katzner
Thousands of people live and work in Central Minnesota, so a group of about 500 might be easy to miss.
Most of those 500 people, however, are in a new country and learning new customs while trying to keep a tight grip on the traditions that came with them to America.
That group — the Oromo, an East African ethnic group rooted in the Oromia region of Ethiopia — has been coming to the area for the past 10 years. But it wasn’t until recently they had any local group designed specifically to their needs and to help them with the transition.
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