Creating Equitable Opportunity For All
Team with diverse Wealth of Culture
We Focus on African Grassroots
It is the mission of the Center for African Immigrants and Refugees Organization (CAIRO) to advocate for and act to increase equity and social justice through programs, services, community organizing and collaborative leadership that create equitable opportunities for African refugees and immigrant children, youth and families to thrive.
It takes a Village
Our Mission
Together, we are creating a more equitable and just society.
We advocate for and act to increase equity and social justice through programs, services, community organizing and collaborative leadership that create equitable opportunities for African refugees and immigrant children, youth and families to thrive.
As Central Minnesota’s largest BIPOC agency, our goal is to help develop the necessary support and tools for our families to become their own advocates and agents of change.
Our Values
What makes us different?
Community Driven
Our Services are informed by and with the voice of the community in mind. We will be flexible with our delivery and responsive to our changing community demands and issues.
Unbreakable Resilience
We draw upon our individual, and collective competencies to cope with, adapt to, and develop from the demands, challenges and changes encountered in our past and current lives.
Social Sustainability
We strive to ensure that our systems, structures; and those of partnerships
actively support the capacity of communities to be their own advocates.
With US, by US, for US
Working together for Community Impact
We envision a more just and equitable society in which children, youth, and families live in sustained, supportive communities, that reinforce the cultural wealth and lived experience of the refugee and immigrant family. Our expertise lies in our ability to provide services that empower the African refugee and immigrant communities to enrich and their their lives, through our work in equitable education, community health and economic development.
Join us in the movement for Equity
Our commitment to systemic and sustainable change toward creating equitable opportunities is ingrained in our mission and demonstrated throughout our priority areas of community health, equitable education, and economic development. We constantly work to strengthen our staff and organizational capacity to address social inequities. This includes ensuring our internal work is rooted in the principles of social justice and that our organizational culture supports staff and volunteers in being innovative, creative, passionate, and accountable.
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Volunteer
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Meet Our
Leadership Team
Salad O'Barrow
Board Chair
School Teacher
Nafisa Fai
Board Member
County Commissioner
Tejan Conteh
Board Member
Banking Executive
Khadija Ali, Ph.D.
Board Member
Assistant Professor
Priority Areas ( Community Needs )
Priority Areas
( Community Needs )
Economy Development
We envision a more just and equitable society in which children, youth, and families live in sustained, supportive communities, that reinforce the cultural wealth and lived experience of the refugee and immigrant family. Our expertise lies in our ability to provide services that empower the African refugee and immigrant communities to enrich and their lives, through our work in equitable education, community health and economic development.
Health Equity
We envision a more just and equitable society in which children, youth, and families live in sustained, supportive communities, that reinforce the cultural wealth and lived experience of the refugee and immigrant family. Our expertise lies in our ability to provide services that empower the African refugee and immigrant communities to enrich and their lives, through our work in equitable education, community health and economic development.
Workforce Development
We envision a more just and equitable society in which children, youth, and families live in sustained, supportive communities, that reinforce the cultural wealth and lived experience of the refugee and immigrant family. Our expertise lies in our ability to provide services that empower the African refugee and immigrant communities to enrich and their lives, through our work in equitable education, community health and economic development.
Support CAIRO
Your gift allows us to seize opportunities for transformational impact and scale our work according to community needs
Parent Leadership Council
We envision a more just and equitable society in which children, youth, and families live in sustained, supportive communities, that reinforce the cultural wealth and lived experience of the refugee and immigrant family. Our expertise lies in our ability to provide services that empower the African refugee and immigrant communities to enrich and their lives, through our work in equitable education, community health and economic development.
We envision a more just and equitable society in which children, youth, and families live in sustained, supportive communities, that reinforce the cultural wealth and lived experience of the refugee and immigrant family
Early Childhood Literacy & Equity
We envision a more just and equitable society in which children, youth, and families live in sustained, supportive communities, that reinforce the cultural wealth and lived experience of the refugee and immigrant family. Our expertise lies in our ability to provide services that empower the African refugee and immigrant communities to enrich and their lives, through our work in equitable education, community health and economic development.
We envision a more just and equitable society in which children, youth, and families live in sustained, supportive communities, that reinforce the cultural wealth and lived experience of the refugee and immigrant family
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Greater Minnesota
Greater Metro
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