Somaliland sun- Thirteen years after fleeing a Kenyan refugee camp, she’s breaking barriers for her community by competing for the title of Miss Minnesota USA.
And whether she wins or not Halima Aden, from the St. Cloud area, who is the first Somali-American woman to ever compete at a beauty contest in the USA, has already achieved her initial motive of making a statement
On the motivation behind this unprecedented move Miss Aden says she that she signed up for the pageant in order to inspire Muslim girls with a simple message: You are beautiful, too.
