Toronto -
In charting a new era for their beleaguered homeland, young Somali-Canadians are embarking on an innovative nation-building process aimed at reconciling factions divided by the 20 year destructive civil war.
Malcolm Turnbull, Federal Member for Wentworth and Shadow Minister for Communications and Broadband (left), Matthew Moore, Urban Affairs Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald – Moderator for the community forum (centre), Lord Mayor of Sydney Clover Moore (right).
BVCare members Khadija Ali (left), Nawal Isse (second left) and Shukri Omar (right) with Digital Journal's Farid Omar outside the Hamdi Restaurant in downtown Toronto.
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Nawal Isse of BVCare.
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Members of the public queue to ask the panel a question about the problems with late night alcohol fueled violence in the Kings Cross area of Sydney.
BVCare members: From left, Khadija Ali, Shukri Omar and Nawal Isse pose at the Hamdi Restaurant, downtown, Toronto, during an exclusive interview with the Digital Journal's Farid Omar.
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The venue was packed with members of the public and ‘standing room only’.