About usThe Somali Bantu Citizen Group of Oregon is a 501(C)3 status. SBCG was first established in 2005 with the express goal of facilitating the resettlement and integration of the Somali Bantu community refugee in Oregon, especially in Washington/ Multnomah County as a part of a resettlement program in the United States. The purpose of this nonprofit organization is to help educational, cultural and life-skill training programs in an effort to promote self-sufficiency within and among the Somali Bantu individuals, families and all other refugees who want to participate in our program. The Community has focused on education as a means of "Bridging the Gap" for refugees and as such provides a full range of workshops and classes to meet their needs.
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The mission of the Somali Bantu Citizen Group of Oregon is to facilitate the resettlement of the Somali Bantu Community in the United States, especially in Oregon by providing programs for education, culture, and economic opportunity in order to promote self-sufficiency within the community.
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Our vision is to increase the literacy rate of young teenagers and families. We aim to significantly impact lives in the community by fostering independence empowerment and intellectual development of the Somali Bantu families in Oregon .
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We are the descendants of six African tribes in East Africa, we are not a native Somalis. Our ancestors were taken from our native lands by Arab slave traders in the 18th and 19th centuries and sold through the Zanzibar slave market.
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