East African Women's Center - Building community for Somali and other East African Women and their Families

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To contact the East African Women’s Center,
call 612-333-0575 (primarily Somali spoken)

To contact Doroth Mayer, Center Director,
call 612-332-8402

To contact the Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota, call 612-338-5282

To contact Saeed Fahia, CSCM Executive Director, call 612-559-9023

We are located in the Riverside Plaza highrise complex at

1525 South 4th Street

If you’re coming from 15th Avenue, walk east into the complex. Look for this sign.

The mailing address of the East African Women’s Center is:

East African Women’s Center
in care of Doroth Mayer
420 15th Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454

Walk straight ahead and enter the Center through the blue door.

Doroth Mayer, Center Director
Kali Ali, 5th Day/Living in America Coordinator
Angie Hanson-Huff, ESL/Transition Teacher
Hawo Karshe, Childcare Coordinator
Vicky Walsh, Operations Manager

If you are coming from the 4th Street parking lot, walk into the complex and look for this playground. We’re right behind it with doors at each end of our space.

Mary Benbenek
Hawo Karshe
Fadumo “Kongo” Mahamad
Fossia Mohammed
Johara Mohammed
Mara O’Neill,
Pearl Savage
Lori Stone
Komosse Toure
Mary Laurel True
Nafiso Weyrah

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