# Hanan Ibrahim (Xanaan Ibraahim)

> Hanan Ibrahim: London community activist, founder of the Somali Family Support Group, constitution drafter in 2011, MBE 2010.

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## Who is she?

Hanan Ibrahim is a Somali social activist ([Wikipedia, Hanan Ibrahim](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanan_Ibrahim)). She chairs the Barnet Muslim Women's Network, among other roles (same source).

## Early life

She grew up in Somalia ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanan_Ibrahim)). After the civil war broke out, she moved to the United Kingdom in 1998 (same source). See [Somalis in London](/en/diaspora/london/).

## Community work

In London she founded the Somali Family Support Group, an organisation for Somali and wider Horn of Africa communities ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanan_Ibrahim)). It runs a family advice centre, health campaigns, help with job searches and skills workshops, and works on interfaith dialogue (same source).

She has worked with the Women Interfaith Network, Sisters Against Violent Extremism and the Women's Federation for World Peace ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanan_Ibrahim)). In 2008 she joined the SAVE UK Advisory Board of Women Without Borders (same source). She has sat on the UK government's National Muslim Women Advisory Group and the National Community Forum (same source).

## Somalia's constitution

In 2011 the [Transitional Federal Government](/en/history/transitional-governments-2000-2012/) appointed her to the Committee of Experts that prepared Somalia's new draft constitution ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanan_Ibrahim)).

## Awards

She received the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service in 2004 and the Ambassador for Peace Award in 2009 ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanan_Ibrahim)). In 2010 she won the London Borough of Barnet Civic Award and was appointed MBE for her work with the Somali Family Support Group (same source).

## In short

A London community activist who founded the Somali Family Support Group and helped draft Somalia's constitution in 2011.

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