It all started in June of 2015 when I was nominated by Radio Bar-Kulana as Person of the Month. I\’d not previously worked with this radio station not did I know about their Person of the Month nominations. Apparently, they conducted their own research on me and others and contacted me about this. The new initiative aimed …
I will make no excuses for being a woman A woman, the woman, I am. I will make no excuses for being an opinionated female A female, the female, I am. I will make no excuses for being an emancipated lady A lady, the lady, I am. I will make no excuses for my curved …
We have dreamed many dreams that never came true. We watched them painfully vanish at every dawn. But we have realized enough dreams for Somalia. To make us want to keep dreaming on. We have prayed many prayers for Somalia even when no answers came. Though we waited long and patient. But answers have come …
Dear Somali youth. For many years. You sat all day by the bomb-shelled walls. Your future was massacred. Stolen from you. Your innocence too. You sat amongst people who lost their souls, and all hope. For 20 years, you watched the daily bombings, the killings. You lost your self worth and confidence. Your dignity had …
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For all the little girls brought from their homes each day to work for the rich as maids and as garbage collectors. I have seen some of these girls abused and broken. Dead. In and out. ———————— The chill that sets in freezes her frail body so. She sits in the kitchen that has become …
The Somalia Gender Hub aims to advance studies and the provision of data and evidence on gender and the situation of women in Somalia