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A remarkably warm-hearted, uplifting and inspiring story of one
boy's survival against the odds. Abdi's world fell apart when he
was only fifteen and Somalia's vicious civil war hit Mogadishu.
Unable to find his family and effectively an orphan, he fled with
some sixty others,heading to Kenya. On the way, death squads hunted
them and they daily faced violence, danger and starvation. After
almost four months, they arrived in at refugee camps in Kenya - of
the group he'd set out with, only five had survived. All alone in
the world and desperate to find his family, Abdi couldn't stay in
Kenya, so he turned around and undertook the dangerous journey back
to Mogadishu. But the search was fruitless, and eventually Abdi
made his way - alone, with no money in his pockets - to Romania,
then to Germany, completely dependent on the kindess of strangers.
He was just seventeen years old when he arrived in Melbourne. He
had no English, no family or friends, no money, no home. Yet,
against the odds, he not only survived, he thrived. Abdi went on to
complete secondary education and later university. He became a
youth worker, was acknowledged with the 2007 Victorian Refugee
Recognition Award and was featured in the SBS second series of Go
Back to Where You Came From. Despite what he has gone through, Abdi
is a most inspiring man, who is constantly thankful for his life
and what he has. Everything he has endured and achieved is
testament to his quiet strength and courage, his resilience and
most of all, his warm-hearted, shining and enduring optimism.
'Powerful and uplifting' Bookseller + Publisher 'Aden's odyssey
belongs to our time ...Here is a man who counts his blessings and
has an inspiring story to tell.' Sydney Morning Herald
This book interrogates the contemporary practice of Integrating
Islamic and secular education among Muslim dominated areas in
Kenya. Integration of Islamic and secular education is a popular
phenomenon in Garissa sub-county as a response to demand for
Islamic education to satisfy religious needs and demand. The high
Muslim population in Garissa sub-county was an overarching driver
of demand for integrated education. Muslim parents wanted their
children to attain both secular and Islamic education. Parents
sought integrated education to reduce the amount of time their
children spent moving between three institutions: primary school,
madrassa and Duksi from which they sought both secular and Islamic
education. The school in this study adapted a bi-functional model
of integration where both a madrassa providing Islamic education
and a primary school providing secular education co-existed as one
institution but operating independently. However, secular dominated
Islamic education in this arrangement hence the need for a balanced
curriculum that would give adequate attention to both religious and
secular education so as to adequately cater for needs of both types
education.
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