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Education Law Center: Committed Collaborator Award

Pittsburgh Refugee Center
Pittsburgh Refugee Center (PRC) is a non-profit organization that supports and advocates on behalf of refugee students and families as they adjust to life in the United States. PRC and its Executive Director, Khadra Mohammed, have been an invaluable resource for ELC as it strives to meet the challenge of providing legal advice and representation to English language learners and refugee students. Ms. Mohammed has generously shared her community volunteers, translators and advocates who have donated their time to help ELC in its representation of students and families who are English language learners.

Pittsburgh Refugee Center has been particularly busy this past year helping to meet the needs of the Somali Bantu refugee community recently resettled in Pittsburgh. Together, ELC and Pittsburgh Refugee Center have been working to help inform Somali Bantu refugee families, and other refugees, about proper procedures and legal rights regarding public education. Together, we have provided training and technical assistance to individual families and to community groups on issues ranging from access to public education services to issues of special education, school discipline and parent involvement.

ELC is pleased to honor and gratefully acknowledge the work of Khadra Mohammed and Pittsburgh Refugee Center and her significant support for ELC’s work on behalf of the Somali Bantu refugee students and other English Language learners in Western Pennsylvania.

On Sept 29, 2005, Ms. Khadra Mohammed accepted ELC’s Committed Collaborator Award on behalf of Pittsburgh Refugee Center.