Focus on education is key to youth success In any language Abraham Moss pupil Amino is a star

by Jack Colwell

A SOMALIAN pupil from Abraham Moss Community School has won a languages award for her interpreting work.

Amino Ali won the award at the Make Time for Languages celebration held at Manchester Metropolitan University.

There are 62 different languages spoken at the school and Amino is part of a group of young translators trained to provide interpretation services to fellow students, parents and staff. Languages in the scheme include Somali, Urdu, Polish, Dutch and Italian.

The students from Abraham Moss Community School were regarded the stars of the evening and had also recently won the TES International Schools Award, with the judges saying: “The young translators team and commitment to tackling extremism are clearly powerful agents for learning, positivity and respect for all.”

by Mohammed Wadi

THE first ever Somali Inspirational Awards were held in Moss Side organised by Somali community activists and spearheaded by the Somali-born Moss Side Councillor Mahdi Sharif.

According to the organisers, the event was intended to give encouragement to Somali students to do more and to award those who have made achievements in their education.

During the event, many Somali community leaders spoke at the events and all of them stressed the importance of education, urging Somali youngsters to take their schooling seriously and to fully benefit from the opportunities they have in order to become tomorrow’s doctors, teachers and engineers.

At the end of the event, prizes were given to the pupils with the organisers including, Hassan Jabuti, Hanan and Ali promising that this will not be the end but similar annual events to come in the coming years.

Turn to page 6 for pictures of the event

Gill Houghton, head teacher at Abraham Moss said: “We turn no child away, we celebrate diversity, every child who speaks English as an additional language is an asset to the school.

“I am interested in the 1,700 children in my school, we take care of them. If every head teacher in the country takes this approach then we will be living in a very safe, global community.”

Amina, pictured, said: “We have a very bright future. All pupils feel safe, valued, and special from the very first day at Abraham Moss.

“We celebrate our differences. Your opinion matters, you have the right to say what you think. We want everyone, everywhere to have basic human rights.

“We take our responsibilities as dual-citizens very seriously and we take injustices in society very seriously.”

A brave man lets his son go

by Mawliid Nuur

ONE of the ways men are respected in the community is there level of bravery. Men who are scared and afraid are really not considered to be men at all.

One day there was a young lady who was in panic and despair. At the top of her voice she shouted “somebody help!! somebody help!”.

A man who was nearby heard the cries of a damsel in distress. He immediately ran to help the young lady in need. He didn’t really think twice about whether or not he would be able to help out in the situation. The only thing he knew was that if could help, he would be seen as a brave man and gain the respect of the people.

He arrived at the scene. The young lady was pointing her finger to a huge snake on the ground. She the shouted “kill it!!” The man had a very bad phobia of snakes and fainted as soon as he saw it. The snake got away.

The women was confused so when the man was conscience again she said “you scared cat why didn’t kill the snake and let it get away?”

The man try to get some dignity back and replied “I am a retired brave man oh the big snakes I have killed.”

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