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| Hawa Abdi, M.D |
Somali doctor and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Hawa Abdi, M.D., will visit Saint Louis University to share her fight to provide a home, school and hospital for 90,000 impoverished refugees on her family's property. The event, which is open to the general public, will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 1 at St. Francis Xavier College Church.
Abdi will talk about how she initially built her community, which started as a one-room health care clinic, nearly two decades ago. Thousands of starving and sick refugees - primarily women and children - flocked to her farmland. Abdi welcomed them and, with her two daughters who are also doctors, tended to the medical needs of community.
They also expanded the scope of services they offered to include educating, feeding and providing water to community members. Abdi and her foundation established a school, implemented sustainable farming practices and mounted an engineering program to solve problems with water and energy. The community became one of the largest camps for internationally displaced people in Somalia.
