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Dr. Hawa Abdi:  A Sanctuary in Hell

Dr. Hawa Abdi: A Sanctuary in Hell

Update: 2025-09-10
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In the middle of Somalia’s civil war, when the world was falling apart, Dr. Hawa Abdi started building. On her family’s land outside Mogadishu, she created a hospital, a school, a legal aid clinic, and eventually a sanctuary for tens of thousands of people fleeing violence and famine. Armed militias tried to take it. She told them to get off her front lawn. And they did. This is the story of a doctor who held the line when no one else could, and turned one patch of earth into a beacon of hope for an entire nation.

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Dr. Hawa Abdi:  A Sanctuary in Hell

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