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Outlook: Hawa Abdi: saving thousands in Somalia

Dr Hawa Abdi

15/04/2013

Hawa Abdi: saving thousands in Somalia

BBC World Service - Outlook, Hawa Abdi: saving thousands in Somalia

Somali doctor Hawa Abdi, who's provided healthcare and shelter to thousands

Over two decades of conflict in Somalia, Dr Hawa Abdi has offered healthcare and shelter to thousands. She tells Matthew Bannister how she kept her hospital open.

Matthew Bannister talks to Somali doctor Hawa Abdi about how her one-room clinic near Mogadishu turned into a 300-bed hospital, surrounded by a makeshift community of thousands of Somalis forced to flee their homes over two decades of violence.  She tells her story in a new book, "Keeping Hope Alive", co-written with Sarah Robbins. Also, 18-year-old Kenyan student Sophie Umazi, who was determined to work towards preventing a repeat of the post-election violence of 2007. The result is her "I am Kenyan" photographic campaign, which has become an internet phenomenon. We also hear from Edward Petherbridge, the British actor who suffered a stroke while preparing to play King Lear - and has now turned the experience into a play - and listen to the story behind Rebel Riot, the punk rock band from Burma.

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