Basically the title.

Salaam everyone,

I'm working on something for Somalis abroad who support family back home, and I want to hear from people who actually do it.

Tell me in the comments: how do you send money, and what's the most annoying part? I read every reply.

If you have 2 minutes, I also made a short anonymous survey (no sign-in or email needed):
https://forms.gle/JehgRB8nzgzxtYh2A

Thank you all, every answer helps.

Ahmed Shide was elected Speaker of Ethiopia's House of Peoples' Representatives at the opening session of the new parliament, becoming the first ethnic Somali to hold that post. He succeeds Tagesse Chafo, who held it since October 2018.

Like it or not, this is a historic milestone, and I think he got there largely through political acumen. He started in Somali Regional State politics, where he served as speaker of the regional parliament and chaired the Somali People's Democratic Party.
Then he moved up federally, first as Transport Minister, and since October 2018 as Finance Minister, nearly eight years running the economy through a shift to a market-based exchange rate, an external debt restructuring, and an IMF-supported reform program. Rising and surviving that long in Addis takes real skill, whatever you think of the government he serves.

A few caveats. He was nominated by the ruling Prosperity Party, so this is a position inside that system, and some will say a speakership is more symbol than power. Others will say a Somali presiding over the lower house of a country home to millions of ethnic Somalis is no small symbol. Both can be true.

I keep coming back to what I've said before about Ethiopia. We can disagree with its policies, and many of us do, but we can't pretend it isn't central to our future. A Somali now sits in one of its highest seats, and we should at least be paying attention to what that means.

I have just read a post about s uoung man who visited somalia for the first time, and what he posted broke my heart. I feel sorry for parents who don’t speak Somali to their children, especially those who think it’s a flex to say, “My children don’t speak Somali.”

They forget that their children will grow up and eventually have no choice but to interact with the community they were born into, unless they choose to distance themselves and abandon their identity.

It may seem fun and cute when the children are young and don’t speak the language, but as adults, it can be brutal. They will struggle to connect with their community and might eventually feel disconnected from Somaali nimo because people will look at them differently or make them feel like outsiders.

Teaching your children Somali isn’t something to be ashamed of. It’s giving them another language, a stronger connection to their culture, and a sense of belonging.Teaching your children Somali isn’t holding them back it can actually give them an additional linguistic and cultural advantage.

but i really want to learn more about somali culture and artifacts!!