ST. CLOUD TIMES — Suud Olat’s parents never dreamed their children would earn bachelor’s degrees, he said Tuesday.
Olat’s family left Somalia for the Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya when Olat was about six months old.
They spent more than two decades there.
On Friday Olat, 28, will receive his bachelor of arts degree from St. Cloud State University. He joins his older sister in the family’s first generation of college graduates.