“Unlike the grain silos and Buffalo’s eponymous hot sauce-slicked wings, the West Side Bazaar was born of 21st-century Buffalo.” — Alana Pedalino (APstyle)
Before opening her own Ethiopian restaurant in America, Zelalem Gemmeda was a refugee in Yemen. In Yemen’s capital city of Sana’a, she learned how to run a restaurant in spite of extensive limitations. As a refugee on Yemeni soil, Gemmeda had almost no rights; male relatives needed to speak on her behalf. So Gemmeda did what she had to do to survive.
. Inside you will find Gemmeda, as well as other immigrants, refugees, and longtime locals eating, shopping, and cooking from restaurant stalls.Photograph by Brendan George Ko, the West Side Bazaar was born of 21st-century Buffalo. Inside, instead of videos and DVDs, you’ll find floor-to-ceiling racks of imports: patterned silks, beaded necklaces, and jewel-tone tops embroidered with gold thread that shimmers under fluorescent light.
WEDI’s microloans and business-oriented public education programs are a game-changer for businesses on Buffalo’s West Side, where immigrants and refugees have settled for decades. “Before, [refugees] were scared to open a business. After WEDI started business here, all of the Grant [Street] area became occupied by refugee business owners,” Gemmeda says.
“After the overwhelming joy, we kind of just sat there and started thinking [about] the work that has to go into it,” Doar remembers. “But we wanted to take that risk.”
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