United Women of East Africa Support Team runs its East African Cultural and Community Center at 6523 University Ave in San Diego's College Area, 92115, serving roughly 1,600 households from Somalia, the DR Congo, Iraq, Ethiopia, and Eritrea through programming that operates seven days a week. Co-founded in 2008 by Sahra Abdi, a Somali refugee woman who has spent over 18 years in health education and social-service advocacy, UWEAST received its foundational three-year project grant in 2010 from the California Wellness Foundation to build bridges between the East African community and mainstream service providers. The center's programming spans mental health support, mentorship, system-navigation services, youth development and leadership, parenting education, a boys' basketball league, a Girl Scout troop, and economic-development tracks including women's entrepreneur development and microenterprise incubation. The University Avenue location sits within the broader faith and cultural infrastructure of College Area near SDSU, where congregations including New Vision Church serve overlapping East African populations and coordinate volunteer referrals with UWEAST's intake team. Bilal and Baraka, UWEAST's catering social enterprise launched in 2013, employs 18 East African women who prepare Somali, Ethiopian, and Eritrean cuisine—including sambosas, chicken and rice, lentil stew, and injera—for clients that include UC San Diego, San Diego State University, and local nonprofits. Hayaat Kitchens, a newer catering program, operates at the weekly UCSD farmers' market and expands the same workforce-development model to North and East African food. UWEAST's men's circle, developed after a series of suicides among East African men in San Diego, provides structured space for boys and young men to discuss physical and mental well-being in a culturally affirming environment led by coordinator Jama Mohammad, who holds a master's degree in marriage and family therapy. Abdi's leadership also produced the San Diego Refugee Community Coalition, which unites 13 ethnic-based organizations serving Afghan, East African, Haitian, Karen/Burmese, Middle Eastern, Russian, and Ukrainian refugee populations under a shared service-delivery model. The center's cultural and movement-based youth wellness programming draws from the same El Cajon Blvd corridor where Majesty in Motion Dance Studio offers classes that UWEAST occasionally integrates into its adolescent health curriculum. All programs observe participants' Muslim practices, including gender-appropriate group settings, Ramadan scheduling, and Eid bazaars that double as community fundraisers and cultural-preservation events.