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ABOUT US Since 1996, the Somali Development Center (SDC) has been the lifeline to vital educational and social services for New England’s growing Somali refugee and immigrant community. SDC was founded by a group of Somali-Americans who originally came to the U.S. to obtain higher education. In 1991, when a full-scale civil war started in Somalia, it forced millions of people to flee from the cities in Somalia into the neighboring states of Ethiopia and Kenya. As a result, the United States government, through its refugee resettlement program, settled thousands of Somalis in the U.S. Nearly 5000 of these Somali refugees have been arriving in the New England area to start new lives since 1992. SDC is a tax-exempt organization as defined by Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. SDC was specifically established by the aforementioned Somali American group to provide multiple services to the Somali newcomers, as there were no effective mainstream social service agencies working with Somalis at that time. The past few years have seen exponential growth in the Somali community in greater New Hampshire. In response to community need, the Somali Development Center established SDC Manchester on April 2005. SDC Manchester office has now been open from April 2005 and actively providing new services and enhancing other exciting services
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