Holy Cross Students from Somaliland Make the Most of Opportunity to Study in the U.S.

There’s a map of the world in the Holy Cross Office of International Students, a map that includes photos of dozens of young people with lines connecting them to their home countries. Two of those lines connect faces to a place that some would believe most unlikely to produce students capable of thriving at an American college or university: Somaliland, a poor country on the Horn of Africa that has yet to gain international recognition after breaking away from Somalia more than 25 years ago.