Project Blog

Meet Hussien Mohamed, Director of Sagal Radio in Atlanta
  I will never forget the day I became a refugee. I left Ethiopia with less than a dollar in my pocket and bread my mother made... read more
Listen to Some Stories from StoryCorps
I got a brief email from Hussien Mohamed of our HEARMe project letting me know Amanda Plumb of StoryCorps had blogged the visit she had... read more
Meet Joan Baptist of WRFG-FM, “HEARMe” Media Partner
My grandparents were immigrants from Italy, and I've always lived in multinational neighborhoods. It's important to see the strength in something like that, to learn... read more
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Sagal Radio Service and Oakhurst Medical Center Annual International Health Fair
On October 10, 2009 Sagal Radio Service, an native language broadcast for New Americans, and Oakhurst Medical Center, a local health clinic that provides affordable,... read more
Exercise Class for Somali Women: First-Person Story
I taught exercise classes for Somali women in Clarkston, GA. The first class had 35 women in attendance. As part of the class I incorporated... read more
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Thinking About Somalians in the News and the Somalians I Know
On Sunday, The New York Times published a very long article about the more than 20 young American men from the Minneapolis area who have... read more
Exercise for Somali Women with HearME and Move
HEARMe and Move had it’s first exercise class for Somali women on Thursday, May 29th. Harpist Susan Ottzen taught a combination of Chi Gong and... read more
HEARMe Youth Radio Interns Arrive!
This week, HEARMe partners Hussien Mohamed and Ericka Tucker met for the first time with our summer interns from Clarkston High School. Four high school... read more
Building a Partnership: WRFG Volunteers Training Sagal Radio Volunteers
On May 31st, WRFG will host volunteers from Sagal Radio in the first of its two-part Broadcast Class. The purpose of this class is to... read more
Somalis in Postville
A recent De Moines Register article reported that scores of people from Somalia have arrived in Postville, Iowa to work at the Agriprocessors plant that... read more