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160 Zahra Abukar

11/26/2017

Zehra Abukar is originally from Somalia. She lived there until age eleven when her family moved to Turkey. There she learned to play in a new language and live in a new culture, often among other immigrants there. In 2014 she and her family moved to Portland, Maine. Zehra completed a year of high school before attending Southern Maine Community College. In college she studies business, runs the Multicultural International Student Association, works and dreams of creating a line of "Cover Girl" fashions, for Muslim girls who want to be both stylish and modest. However, she knows life can offer unexpected changes so she just stays positive and open to the options.

Music: "Haldhaa" by Fadumo Cali Cilmi

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Thanksgiving Special 2017

11/19/2017

Join in the myrth as African Dundada hosts his friends from Portland Culture Exchange for a Thanksgiving meal, with international flavors, at WMPG. Hanan Ismail sings a Lebanese song and they all visit about Thanksgiving together.

Music: Bob Marley sings "One Love."

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159 Bereket Bairu

11/5/2017

Bereket is originally from Eritrea, eldest of 8 children in his family of modest means. He studied math in college and soon thereafter became a math tutor and teacher. He left Eritrea in 2009, lived in Khartoum and Juba before coming to Maine in June of 2016.
Within two months of arrival, Bereket was already engaged tutoring high school and college students in math and has become known as the "Emergency Tutor," as he makes himself available to his students at all hours by mobile phone. Bereket feels that children are our most valuable asset and that math is essential for life. His warm personality and counselor-friend style endears him to his students who have high powered careers all over the world, at this point.
Presently, he works at the Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center and hopes, in time, to develop more curriculum and materials which he can administer through an interactive website to serve more students.
Beyond math, Bereket has strong English and interpersonal skills. He has already been interviewed on Maine Public, the Bangor Daily News, and was recently a special guest chef for Immigrant Kitchens. Bereket has very much appreciated his warm welcome to Portland.

Music: Live Aid - 1985 USA for Africa--"We Are The World"

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