Social Issues

Marta Morales, 43, has been living in Minneapolis for four years. She's from Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Tanee Meeboon is from Bangkok, Thailand. He's 46 and lives in Minneapolis with his wife and three children.
Xue Xiong is 36. His wife, Maiyia Thao is 32. They and their seven children were in the first group of Hmong from a refugee camp in Thailand that arrived in St. Paul in June 2004.
Qingling Liu Fritz just arrived in Minnesota a few months ago (she is called Ling for short). Ling moved to the Twin Cities on Feb. 8, 2005 from Zhanjiang, People's Republic of China, to marry a Minnesotan, Charles Fritz.
Shari Outar, 54, and her husband Deo, 56, came to Minnesota from Guyana in 1987 and live in Maplewood. Shari's two sisters, her brother and her father live in Minnesota.
Krishna Rao, 24, is from Madras, India. He's an associate software engineer at Medtronic.
Abdirahman Adan is a native of Somalia. Adan, 23, came to Minnesota in 1995 with his parents and siblings. They fled their hometown of Mogadishu when war broke out in Somalia, and spent several years in towns in Somalia and Kenya before being accepted into the United States.
Soloman Gashaw is 56 years old. He was born in the Harrar region of Ethiopia, and grew up in the Oromia region.
Kola Coker is from the state of Lagos in southwestern Nigeria. He belongs to the Yoruba ethnic group. He came to Minnesota in 2000 and now lives in Champlin with his wife and three of his children.
Peter Kingoina is a native of Kisii, Kenya. He's 52 and a pastor of the Minneapolis Kenyan Adventist Church. He is married and has four children. They live in Andover.