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Keeping Hope Alive - One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed (Hardcover)
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Keeping Hope Alive - One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed (Hardcover)
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The moving memoir of one brave woman who, along with her daughters,
has kept 90,000 of her fellow citizens safe, healthy, and educated
for over 20 years in Somalia.
Dr. Hawa Abdi, "the Mother Teresa of Somalia" and Nobel Peace Prize
nominee, is the founder of a massive camp for internally displaced
people located a few miles from war-torn Mogadishu, Somalia. Since
1991, when the Somali government collapsed, famine struck, and aid
groups fled, she has dedicated herself to providing help for people
whose lives have been shattered by violence and poverty. She turned
her 1300 acres of farmland into a camp that has numbered up to
90,000 displaced people, ignoring the clan lines that have often
served to divide the country. She inspired her daughters, Deqo and
Amina, to become doctors. Together, they have saved tens of
thousands of lives in her hospital, while providing an education to
hundreds of displaced children.
In 2010, Dr. Abdi was kidnapped by radical insurgents, who also
destroyed much of her hospital, simply because she was a woman.
She, along with media pressure, convinced the rebels to let her go,
and she demanded and received a written apology.
Dr. Abdi's story of incomprehensible bravery and perseverance will
inspire readers everywhere.
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