This program tutors and mentors refugee youth in Tacoma's Hilltop neighborhood. The students are mainly Somali Bantu with a few Sudanese students. The Somali Bantu have been historically oppressed in their home nation of Somalia and when civil war broke out in 1991 they fled their home to seek refuge in Kenyan refugee camps. Years later, the United States allowed the Somali Bantu to be classified as "refugees" and to make the United States their new home.