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Keeping Hope Alive
How One Somali Woman Changed 90,000 Lives
Taschenbuch von Hawa Abdi
Sprache: Englisch

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For the last twenty years, Dr Hawa Abdi and her daughters have run a refugee camp on their family farm not far from war-torn Mogadishu, which has grown to shelter 90,000 displaced Somalis: men, women, and children whose lives have been shattered by violence and poverty and who are in urgent need of medical attention. She founded a one-room clinic in 1983, but then the Somalian government collapsed, famine struck and aid groups fled. So she allowed displaced people to find refuge on her 1300 acres of farmland.

As Islamist militia groups have been battling for control of the country creating one of the most dire human rights crises in the world, Dr. Abdi's camp is now a beacon of hope for the Somalis, most of whom have no proper access to health care. She was recently held hostage by a militant group who threatened her life and told her that because she's a woman she has no right to run the camp. She refused to leave.

This is not just the story of a woman doctor in a war torn Islamic country risking her life daily to minister to thousands of desperate people, it's also an inspiring story of the incomprehensible bravery and perseverance of a divorced woman and her two daughters, bound together on a mission to rehabilitate a country.

For the last twenty years, Dr Hawa Abdi and her daughters have run a refugee camp on their family farm not far from war-torn Mogadishu, which has grown to shelter 90,000 displaced Somalis: men, women, and children whose lives have been shattered by violence and poverty and who are in urgent need of medical attention. She founded a one-room clinic in 1983, but then the Somalian government collapsed, famine struck and aid groups fled. So she allowed displaced people to find refuge on her 1300 acres of farmland.

As Islamist militia groups have been battling for control of the country creating one of the most dire human rights crises in the world, Dr. Abdi's camp is now a beacon of hope for the Somalis, most of whom have no proper access to health care. She was recently held hostage by a militant group who threatened her life and told her that because she's a woman she has no right to run the camp. She refused to leave.

This is not just the story of a woman doctor in a war torn Islamic country risking her life daily to minister to thousands of desperate people, it's also an inspiring story of the incomprehensible bravery and perseverance of a divorced woman and her two daughters, bound together on a mission to rehabilitate a country.

Über den Autor
Dr Hawa Abdi, a Somalian human rights activist, lawyer, and doctor, specializing in gynecology, founded the Doctor Hawa Abdi Foundation. Glamour named her 'Woman of the Year', in 2010 and dubbed her and her daughters 'the Saints of Somalia, equal parts Mother Teresa and Rambo'. Dr Hawa Abdi has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Details
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781844087884
ISBN-10: 1844087883
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Abdi, Hawa
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Maße: 233 x 151 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Hawa Abdi
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.04.2013
Gewicht: 0,374 kg
Artikel-ID: 121219102
Über den Autor
Dr Hawa Abdi, a Somalian human rights activist, lawyer, and doctor, specializing in gynecology, founded the Doctor Hawa Abdi Foundation. Glamour named her 'Woman of the Year', in 2010 and dubbed her and her daughters 'the Saints of Somalia, equal parts Mother Teresa and Rambo'. Dr Hawa Abdi has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Details
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781844087884
ISBN-10: 1844087883
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Abdi, Hawa
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Maße: 233 x 151 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Hawa Abdi
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.04.2013
Gewicht: 0,374 kg
Artikel-ID: 121219102
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