African women find community and healing at knitting group in Burlington

Elize Sikujuwa adds to the conversation during a meeting of a knitting group for New Americans in Winooski on Thursday, September 12. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDiggerBURLINGTON— Fatuma Hussein, 61, had never knitted before she started coming to the third- floor classroom of an Old North End community center. But there she was on a recent Thursday evening, sitting in a beige armchair at the back of the room, working away on a fuzzy green and gray child’s hat.“I like it here,&rdqu