Mom, daughter fundraise to find a safer space for Seattle s only Somali street food truck
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Naomi Tomky, Special to the Seattle P-I
May 14, 2021
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Growing up, Honey Mohammed watched her mother, Marian Ahmed, start her own business and persevere with it through three cities and more than a half-dozen locations. Now, having gone to school for business, the 23-year-old shares ownership with her mom and has big dreams for how to improve Mama Sambusa Kitchen. There’s just one problem: their religious beliefs preclude them from taking a loan and they’ve struck out applying for grants. “I studied grant writing,” says Mohammed. “I’ve applied for every single grant from the Seattle Office of Economic Development, SBA, LOL…,” she laughs. “All of them.”
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Mama Sambusa Kitchen was recently saved from potential financial ruin by a high school student.
Through a new program offered by the Seattle Office of Economic Development and the Urban League of Metropolitan Seattle, Mama Sambusa was matched with student Lucy Richardson who built the restaurant a website, providing the business which has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic with a means for selling its sambusas, gyros and cheesecake without giving a cut to an ordering or delivery platform.