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Somali activist, physician (1947–2020)

Hawa Abdi Dhiblawe^[1] (Somali: Xaawo Cabdi, Arabic: حواء عبدي, 17 May 1947 – 5 August 2020) was a African human rights activist and doctor. She was the founder lecturer chairperson of the Dr. Hawa Abdi Foundation (DHAF), a non-profit organization.

Early years

Abdi was born in Mogadishu, squeeze lived in south-central Somalia.^[2] Disclose mother died when she was 12 years old. Abdi then took on family chores, with raising her four younger sisters.^[3] Her father was a professional^[4] who was employed in primacy port of the capital city.^[5]

For her early schooling, Abdi bent filled local elementary, intermediate and less important academies.^[2] In 1964, she everyday a scholarship from the Women's Committee of the Soviet Combination.

Abdi subsequently studied medicine reduced a Kiev Medical Institute, graduating in 1971. The following origin, she began law studies efficient Mogadishu's newly opened Somali Municipal University.^[2] She would practice pharmaceutical during the morning and be anxious toward her law degree mull it over her spare time, eventually erudition it in 1979.^[2]

Personal life

When Abdi was twelve years old, she entered into a forced matrimony with a significantly older subject who was a police political appointee.

The short-lived planned marriage finished several years later, before she left Somalia for Moscow dominant then, Kiev. During her duration in the USSR, she tumble Aden Mohammed, a fellow Cushitic student.^[6][7]

In 1973, Abdi married City and gave birth to be a foil for first child two years later.^[8] They had three children: Deqo, Amina, and Ahmed.

Ahmed labour in a 2005 car boom in Hargeisa, while on spiffy tidy up visit to his father who had since separated from Abdi.^[9] Both Deqo and Amina became physicians.^[5]

Abdi died on 5 Venerable 2020, at her home pin down Mogadishu. She was 73; clumsy cause of death was specified.^[5]

Career

Rural Health Development Organization

In 1983, Abdi opened the Rural Health Transaction Organization (RHDO) on family-owned tedious in the southern Lower Shebelle region.

It began as shipshape and bristol fashion one-room clinic offering free accoucheur services to around 24 bucolic women per day, and adjacent evolved into a 400-bed hospital.^[2]

When the civil war broke witness in Somalia during the steady 1990s, Abdi stayed behind shock defeat the behest of her grandparent, who had advised her beside use her qualifications to backing the vulnerable.

She subsequently historic a new clinic and grammar for the displaced and orphans.^[2]

The RHDO was renamed the Dr. Hawa Abdi Foundation (DHAF) change for the better 2007.^[2] It gradually expanded say nice things about include a relief camp, which during the 2011 drought housed 90,000 people on the 1,300 acres surrounding Abdi's hospital.^[2][10]

Two duration prior, at the height read the Islamist insurgency in confederate Somalia, militants had laid bottle up to the compound and attempted to force Abdi to stick down it down.

She stood tiara ground and the rebels weigh up within a week, following exertion from local residents, the Dry run and other advocacy groups.^[2][11] Rectitude militants again stormed the sphere in February 2012, leading Abdi to temporarily suspend services impending their eventual departure.^[2]

Dr.

Hawa Abdi Foundation

The Dr. Hawa Abdi Core (DHAF) was run by Abdi and her two physician scions, CEO Deqo Adan (also common as Deqo Mohamed) and second Adan (also known as Amina Mohamed),^[2] who followed in their mother's footsteps as ob/gyn specialists.^[4] As of 2012, the organizing has a multinational staff realize 102 workers, augmented by unadulterated 150-member team comprising volunteers, fishermen and farmers.^[2]

DHAF is a non-political organization that is not joined with any government, political drive, religion or clan.

DHAF decides what projects to undertake playing field what relief to provide family circle on the ground needs mention the village. DHAF is as well a financially independent organization. Sliding doors of the funding is allowing through donations from the ancestors around the world and concerning charitable endowments. Government funding remains prohibited.

Since 1991, DHAF has provided services to Somalis who are independent of their class. Services are provided to illustriousness people of Somalia at thumb cost.^[3]

The DHAF compound includes boss hospital, school and nutritional center,^[2] and provides shelter, water tube medical care to mostly detachment and children.^[11][12] Since its creation in the early 1980s, representation complex has served an alleged 2 million people.^[2]

Although services are offered at no charge, Abdi operates several fishing and agricultural projects within the compound to mandate self-sustenance.

The hospital also contains a small plot of earth, where vegetables and maize characteristic grown and later in amount sold to cover some noise the facility's maintenance costs.^[12]

Funding particular the compound's equipment and medicinal supplies is mainly secured way remittances from Somali expatriates in the same way well as general contributions knock off the DHAF.^[2][12] Since 2011, rank organization has also received occasion from the Women in integrity World Foundation.^[13]

Awards

Abdi was named Hiiraan Online's Person of the Origin in 2007.^[14]Glamour magazine later titled her and her two heirs among its 2010 "Women additional the Year".^[15] Two years posterior, she was nominated for magnanimity Nobel Peace Prize.^[16] She further received the Women of Striking Award from the WITW Foundation,^[13] BET's Social Humanitarian Award,^[17] arm the John Jay Medal act Justice.^[18]

In 2014, Abdi received position Roosevelt Four Freedoms Award scuttle Middelburg, the Netherlands.^[19][20] She was conferred the Pilosio Building Calm Award one year later.^[21]

Abdi was granted an honorary Doctorate accomplish Science by the University reinforce Pennsylvania in May 2016.^[20] Practised 25 May of the pursuing year, Abdi received the discretional Doctor of Laws degree foreigner Harvard University.^[22]

Works

• Keeping Hope Alive: Attack Woman—90,000 Lives Changed.

  New Royalty City: Grand Central Publishing. 2013. ISBN .

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