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A summer camp intended to educate and entertain Edmonton Somali Canadian community’s children and youth is held and taught four days a week, from Monday to Thursday between 9:00 am to 2:45pm. The Reach Ahead summer camp started on July 5 and will continue until August 12, 2010.

78 participants ranging from children to youth are taking advantage of the important, engaging program. The students take Somali language, English and math classes. In addition to the classes, the participants take part in sports and arts activities, as the goal of the summer program is to occupy the critical hours of the participants so as to prevent them from falling prey to inappropriate crowd and activities.

Somali Canadian Cultural Society of Edmonton (SCCSE) is responsible for the plan and implementation of the Reach Ahead summer program. However, SCCSE receives helping hands from numerous organizations, including Big Brothers Big Sisters, Catholic Social Services and Edmonton Board of Education.

It’s the objective of SCCSE to fight crime and delinquency by engaging the community’s youth and children in educational and sports programs with positive outcomes.

May 7, 2010

Editorial: Rescue Lives of Somali-Canadian Youth in Alberta

Unless preventive measures and rescue efforts are taken, the death toll of Somali-Canadian youth is likely to continue in Alberta. For the past five years, many youth members were killed at various locations of Alberta; most of them were killed in the City of Edmonton, which is home to about 10,000 Somalis.

Somali-Canadian community in Alberta is devastated by the continuous murder rates that befall on its youth members; the community witnessed killing after killing. Abdinasir Dirie, 19, was the latest victim; he was murdered in Fort McMurray on April 21, 2010.

The root cause or who is behind these merciless killings aren’t clearly known. These are mysterious killings which have challenged all kinds of sophistication and technological developments, as the Province of Alberta have been unable to catch and bring perpetrators of the killings to justice.

The community is outraged and questions the effectiveness of investigative efforts aimed at solving the murder cases that have plagued the community’s youth. The community is demanding to have the Alberta province, its justice system and the law enforcement agencies investigate and solve the mysterious killings that are haunting the community and taking a terrible traumatic toll on its youth members. The continuous killings that are befalling on the community’s youth must be put to an end.

Many Somali-Canadian families who came to Canada in search of peace and a better life do continually lose their loved young ones to mysterious murders, thereby making the families don’t realize their dreams. Instead of seeing their children graduate and complete their education, the families burry the children one after another. This is a very sad situation indeed.

Although the community is faced with a difficult time in relation to the youth’s issues, there are programs and services put in place for the community’s youth, children and families. The youth are coached and counselled, children are tutored and educated and families are educated on issues that have to do with how to cope with challenges and situations faced by their teenagers.

Somali-Canadian Cultural Society of Edmonton provides beneficial programs and services for the community’s youth, children and their families. The programs are intended to help the community’s youth stay away from troubled spots and inappropriate places and activities.

The community is approaching these issues in different stages; prevention, intervention and rehabilitation. It is also focusing to work with the parents to provide any necessary support they need to keep their children out of trouble.

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