How a Fargo Community Leader’s Kindness Influenced a Business Owner to Pay it Forward

Emily Elizabeth
InThisTogetherND
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2 min readApr 6, 2020

Soma Employment Solutions is an employment agency and the Coronavirus has stopped all business functions which means businesses are not hiring new employees. Soma Employment Solutions has faced difficulty covering their business expenses and pay salaries to their employees due to COVID-19.

A community leader in Fargo, North Dakota helped Soma Employment Solutions reorient the business for job recruiting abroad while nobody is hiring here. This has allowed them to work from home and pay the bills! They are very thankful to that community leader.

Abdi, CEO of Soma Employment Solutions, has paid that thanks forward by leading efforts to share the message about social distancing. He is using Facebook and Instagram to encourage people to follow the CDC guidelines and stay home.

In addition, he is making posters with different languages like Somali and Arabic. He thinks it’s a responsibility to educate everyone on what is going on right now and how we can each play a part to reduce risks and follow health and safety guidelines. Through connections and culturally relevant messages, he is helping his community stay home and save lives.

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