How Somali Communities Are Combating COVID-19 in the US and Abroad
Somali perspectives on faith, community, and resilience in response to COVID-19
MaryRuth Davis
As communities continue to battle COVID-19 and weather the storm of secondary effects left in the wake of the pandemic, we are beginning to hear more from minority and diaspora communities.
According to a study conducted by the American Psychological Association, conducted in Somaliland, among Somali refugees in the U.S., and psychological professionals, people living in or displaced from low- and middle-income countries are navigating extra layers of complexity in how they react to the pandemic. Some aspects of their lives make them more resilient, while others tend to lead to greater vulnerability.
Councillors Ruth Davis and Sanjay Shambhu Councillor Ruth Davis has been named as the new chair of South Gloucestershire Council after being elected by her fellow Councillors at the meeting of Council this week. Councillor Davis moves into the role after serving as vice chair last year, with Councillor Sanjay Shambhu being elected as vice chair for this year. The chair and vice chair perform important ambassadorial roles for the council, representing us at civic functions, as well as chairing Council meetings. Each year, the new chair selects a charity to support for the year ahead, with donations received during that time presented at the end of the chair’s term of office.
“Too much time” feels rather a strange thing to say. Life is short and too many women live through their own motherhoods without their matriarch – I count myself lucky that my mum wants to spend so much time with me and my wild four!
You see my very best friend in the whole world, someone I have known and loved for more than 30 years, she’s more family to me really, is not so lucky in the same sense.
She lost her mum while we were much younger, before she’d had babies of her own.
To use the word “losing” almost makes light of it almost, yet losing it was.
“Too much time” feels rather a strange thing to say. Life is short and too many women live through their own motherhoods without their matriarch – I count myself lucky that my mum wants to spend so much time with me and my wild four!
You see my very best friend in the whole world, someone I have known and loved for more than 30 years, she’s more family to me really, is not so lucky in the same sense.
She lost her mum while we were much younger, before she’d had babies of her own.
To use the word “losing” almost makes light of it almost, yet losing it was.
A LUDLOW volunteer says that she would love to have nothing to do. Ruth Davies, writes in the Hands Together Ludlow newsletter, that she wishes that the foodbank she leads could close because it was not needed but she does not see this happening. “The latest statistics show that 10 per cent of children in Ludlow are living below the poverty line, and one area is the second most deprived in Shropshire,” said Ms Davies, who works from the Rockspring Centre. “It is true that morally there should not be a need for food banks in 21st Century Britain, but when facing the need that we see on an almost daily basis, I feel compelled by the love of Christ to help people at their point of need.