A tale of Somali refugees in New Hampshire

These Somali refugees are struggling to live here, language is their first difficulty. They always lived in the rural areas and are located in cities here. But they are determined to succeed. - - Donna Poisl

NECN: by Lauren Collins

Batulo Mahamed knows her way around the garden -- there is no place more familiar to her than this small plot she tends to on a church lawn in Concord, New Hampshire.

She is safe here, thousands of miles and nearly a decade away from home. Batulo and her husband Salad Salad are Bantu Somalis, refugees forced to flee a village where even their garden, the source of the family's daily meals, could cost them their lives.

Refugees are immigrants without choice -- members of an ethnic or religious minority under the threat of persecution who seek protection in another country. Many spend years in a refugee camp until the U.N. decides whether and where to offer them a safe haven. This family was moved from a camp in Kenya to New Hampshire in 2004.
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