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Hawa Abdi, 1947-
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Hawa Abdi, 1947-
Women human rights workers -- Somalia -- Biography.
Human rights workers -- Somalia -- Biography.
Women gynecologists -- Somalia -- Biography.
Gynecologists -- Biography.
Physicians, Black -- Somalia -- Biography.
Women, Black -- Somalia -- Biography.
Blacks -- Biography.
Somalia -- Biography.
Somalia -- History -- 1991-
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Hawa Abdi, 1947-
Hawa Abdi, 1947-
Women human rights workers -- Somalia -- Biography.
Human rights workers -- Somalia -- Biography.
Women gynecologists -- Somalia -- Biography.
Gynecologists -- Biography.
Physicians, Black -- Somalia -- Biography.
Women, Black -- Somalia -- Biography.
Blacks -- Biography.
Somalia -- Biography.
Somalia -- History -- 1991-
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Keeping hope alive : one woman : 90,000 lives changed / Hawa Abdi with Sarah J. Robbins.
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Hawa Abdi, 1947-
Grand Central Publishing, c2013.
Call #:
323
.092
H389k
Subjects
Hawa Abdi, 1947-
Women human rights workers -- Somalia -- Biography.
Human rights workers -- Somalia -- Biography.
Women gynecologists -- Somalia -- Biography.
Gynecologists -- Biography.
Physicians, Black -- Somalia -- Biography.
Women, Black -- Somalia -- Biography.
Blacks -- Biography.
Somalia -- Biography.
Somalia -- History -- 1991-
ISBN:
9781455503766 (hc.)
1455503762 (hc.)
Alternate title:
One woman : 90,000 lives changed
1 woman : 90,000 lives changed
Description:
xvii, 246 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (on endpapers), photos. ; 21 cm.
Contents:
Introduction: 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 without -- 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.
Summary:
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.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Other authors:
Robbins, Sarah J.
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