By Pat Pheifer and Sharyn Jackson

In a small computer room at the Brian Coyle Community Center where the women went to pray at sunset Thursday, a quote from Dr. Seuss hung on the wall: “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it’s not.”

The quote seemed to sum up the reason that about 120 members of the Somali community had come together on the first day of the new year — to raise more money to finally repair the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque. The mosque in Minneapolis’ Cedar-Riverside neighborhood was heavily damaged by a large apartment-building fire on New Year’s Day 2014 that killed three people.