Tusaalo Mentorship Program is an innovative program developed with the goal of connecting Somali youth with local Somali professionals through culturally-specific and school-based mentorship. In Somali, to be a "tusaalo" is to be an example, which is precisely the role we envision for Somali professionals. Focusing on 9th and 10th graders, our goal is to establish the foundations necessary for increased academic engagement and performance.
The following objectives were generated from the goals listed and outline key phases of the project that are needed to ensure overall success: Objective 1: Making an application process to hire individuals to learn the language as Apprentices. Objective 2: Work with out First Language Speakers that work within our program to serve as Master speakers and assist in the development of learning and speaking skills of the Apprentices. Objective 3: Develop a handbook for the successful implementation of the Master Apprentice project.
On May 20,1863 in St Louis, Missouri the Union Army Special Agent of Contrabands sent 218 African Descendant persons to Ft Snelling on the Steamboat Davenport. The Steamboat Northerner towed a raft to Ft Snelling arriving on May 5, 1863. This project seeks to document the resettlement at Ft Snelling and how this group and Black Civil War Veterans changed the course of history in Minnesota by succeeding in amending the state Constitution to grant citizenship to African American men in 1869.
