Women who led
Dr Deqo Mohamed (Deeqa Aadan Maxamed)
Dr Deqo Aden Mohamed is a Somali obstetrician-gynaecologist and daughter of Dr Hawa Abdi. She worked at the Dr Hawa Abdi General Hospital and led the Dr Hawa Abdi Foundation, which ran Hope Village near Mogadishu for displaced families from 1991 to 2020. She founded the Hagarla Institute and co-founded the Somali Cancer Society.
Dr Deqo MohamedDeqo Aden Mohamed · Deeqa Aadan Maxamed
- Known as one of
- Women who led
- Era
- Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
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Who is she?
Dr Deqo Aden Mohamed is a Somali-born obstetrician and gynaecologist, born in Mogadishu to Dr Hawa Abdi and Aden Mohamed (Wikipedia, Deqo Mohamed). She studied medicine in Russia and helped at her mother's camp between her studies (same source).
Hope Village
She went to the United States as a refugee in 2003 and became a citizen in 2008, returning to Somalia in 2007 to work (Wikipedia). She worked as a doctor at the Dr Hawa Abdi General Hospital and served as CEO of the Dr Hawa Abdi Foundation (same source). Its Hope Village near Mogadishu offered a hospital, schools, a women's education centre, farming projects and shelter to thousands of displaced people from 1991 to 2020 (same source). In 2010 she and her mother gave a TED talk about the clinic (same source).
Later work
She founded and leads the Hagarla Institute, co-founded the Somali Cancer Society, and lectures at the African Leadership University School of Business in Rwanda (Wikipedia). She was a Yale World Fellow in 2016 (same source). With her mother and sister she was named a Glamour Woman of the Year in 2010 and received a BET humanitarian award in 2012 (same source).
In short
A Somali doctor who helped run her mother's hospital and camp for the displaced, and now leads health work across Somalia.
Sources
- Wikipedia, Deqo Mohamed · en.wikipedia.org
Dr Deqo MohamedDeqo Aden Mohamed · Deeqa Aadan Maxamed
- Known as one of
- Women who led
- Era
- Rebuilding without a state, 1991 to 2012; Who holds power, 2012 to now
- Sources
- 1 sources
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