With the majority of the state considered a child care desert, many families struggle to find regulated care for their children. But for Somali immigrants and refugees, culturally appropriate care in ...

Six-year-old Anas Ahmed could hardly be contained as he bolted across his playroom. His mother, Marian Ahmed, called Anas over, taking his head between her hands and squeezing gently. The pressure ...

An after-school program that educates and mentors children in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood could be in store for a big expansion. The Minneapolis 4-H program — offered through Somali nonprofit ...

ST. CLOUD — Move over, Spanish and French. St. Cloud public schools next year will be offering Somali and Ojibwe to all students as elective languages. "It just makes sense for us to have it," said ...

Autism might not be any more prevalent among Somali-heritage children in Minneapolis than it is among white children in the city, but the severity of the developmental disorder appears harsher in this ...

For most of her life, Nawa watched as other children went to school. As a refugee, and a girl at that, she was told there was no place for her in the classroom. That looked set to continue when she ...