Hawa Abdi Quotes:

Women can build stability. We can make peace.

Topics: Stability, Making Peace

When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor.

source: - "Part 2: “Keeping Hope Alive” in Somalia with Hawa Abdi and Daughter Deqo Mohamed". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 16, 2013.

Topics: Mother, Children, Pain, Mother Died

We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community.

source: - "Hawa Abdi" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2011.

Topics: Community, Leader, Trying, Somalia

The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.

source: - "The doctor undaunted by Somalia's insurgents" by Laila Ali, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2011.

Topics: Self, Long, Somalia

At night I dream about going to where I played when I was still young.

source: - "Somali doctor: 'They are taking my land so I can't welcome the poor'" by Clar Ni Chonghaile, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2012.

Topics: Dream, Night, Young

I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that.

Topics: Government, Tangible, Helping, Canadian Government, Somalia