Keeping hope alive : one woman: 90,000 lives changed
Record details
- ISBN: 161969638X (audio download)
- ISBN: 9781619696389 (audio download)
- ISBN: 1455503762 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781455503766 (hardcover) :
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Physical Description:
xvii, 246 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 22 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Grand Central Pub., 2013.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Keeping hope alive -- A stranger in my homeland -- Gold is made beautiful by fire -- To stop the bleeding -- Paradise in the world -- Friends and enemies -- Awaiting a life, awaiting a death -- Filling the hole in my heart -- Losing my past and my future -- Building my practice -- My sisters return -- Necessity is the mother of invention -- Collapse -- Why do you want to do this? -- Danger from within -- Today we are happy -- Operation Restore Hope -- One wrong decision -- The fourth container -- Vice Minister of Labor and Sports -- We can remember -- Ahmed -- "A doctor bound by humanity" -- An ocean of need -- A new generation -- The attack -- Women of the year -- Forgiveness. |
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Subject: | Somalia Biography Gynecologists Somalia Biography Women gynecologists Somalia Biography Human rights workers Somalia Biography Women human rights workers Somalia Biography Hawa Abdi 1947- |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date | |
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Burlington Public Library | 323.092 HAWA 2013 | 39851001148742 | Non-fiction | Copy hold | Available | - |
Dr. Hawa Abdi, a Somalian human rights activist, lawyer, and doctor, specializing in gynecology, founded the Doctor Hawa Abdi Foundation, which runs a hospital and school in one of the largest internally displaced persons camps in the country, offering sanctuary to nearly 90,000 people. 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." She was featured as one of the top "Women Who Shake the World" in Newsweek in 2011, was interviewed by Tina Brown at the 2011 Women in the World Summit, and has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.