Dadiri Nuro was 14 years old when gunmen broke down the door to his parent’s home in Somalia, took away one of his four brothers, stabbed his mother and beat Dadiri, another brother and his father. His family then fled their home with other Somali Bantu refugees to nearby Kenya. Dadiri and Fatuma met and married in a refugee camp in Kenya. In 1997, one week after their first child was born, the family was again forced to flee their home. The Nuro family has lived almost half of their lives in temporary camps in Kenya. With help from the Agency for New Americans and the Episcopal Migration Ministries, the Nuro family was evaluated and qualified for relocation to the U.S., arriving in Boise, Idaho in 2005. Dadiri works as an interpreter and Fatuma works weekends in a hotel laundry. Fatuma and Dadiri have 5 children. In addition to English, Dadiri and Fatuma speak Chizigula, a Bantu language, Swahili, Somali, Maimai. Dadiri spends free time volunteering as a translator for other refugees, assisting at the food bank and is active in the Somali Bantu Zrgua Community of Boise.