History of Drs. Hawa Abdi has left an unforgettable memory in the hearts of the Somali people

 Dr. Hawa Abdi, was a Somali human rights activist, lawyer, and doctor. He is the founder of the Maternal and Child Health Center and the Doctor Hawa Abdi Foundation in 2010, was nominated for the Glamor Award for Woman of the Year. She was also one of the nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize.

May God have mercy on him, Dr. Hawa Abdi Dhiblawe dies in Mogadishu She was the founder of a charity. Hawa Abdi gave birth to three children, one of whom died in 2005. Born in Mogadishu, on May 17, 1947, she completed her primary education at Hamar Jajab School in the city. In Mogadishu, she dropped out of middle school at Komarshaale School.

A Russian-built school in Mogadishu, she said, has since joined, and then received a scholarship from the Soviet Union to go to Ukraine, where she spent seven years before returning home. In 1972, she started working at Digfer Hospital. At that time, there were few women in the country who studied medicine. Dr. Hawa Abdi specializes in Maternal and Child Health.

She also taught at the Somali National University's Department of Medicine. Hawa Abdi, a doctor for 49 years, studied medicine in 1971, during the country's central government. She has worked at medical facilities in Mogadishu, and said her students now work in Somali and many other parts of the world.

Rewards

2017 - She was one of 10 people who were awarded the Doctor of Laws degree by Harvard University.

2015 - She wins the Pilosio Peace Promotion Award

2014 - Hawa Abdi receives the Roosevelt Four: Freedom Award from Middelburg, in the Netherlands.

2012 - Hawa Abdi is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

2012 - Receives WITW Foundation Influential Women Award; Bet Community Aid and John Jay Justice Award.

Hawa Abdi, who has been involved in social work since the beginning of Somalia's civil war, opened a maternal and child health clinic on the road between Mogadishu and Afgooye. She was one of the first women to study medicine. gynecologist, and in 1983 she opened a one-room hospital to help pregnant women.

"I started in the hospital with one room because I was concerned about her labor, but later it grew to four hundred beds," he said. Hawa said in an interview with the BBC in 2013 when Somalia's civil war broke out in 1991, that its headquarters was overcrowded with people fleeing the conflict, and that it had started its DHAF to help people.

Currently DHAF consists of a hospital, a school and a feeding center. Provides education, health care and shelter and training for displaced people, mostly women and children