Hawa Abdi Professions : Activist Born : May 17, 1947 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by Hawa Abdi The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance. Hawa Abdi somalia self long I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that. Hawa Abdi tangible government helping Women can build stability. We can make peace. Hawa Abdi making-peace stability We women in Somalia are trying to be leaders in our community. Hawa Abdi community leader trying At night I dream about going to where I played when I was still young. Hawa Abdi young dream night 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. Hawa Abdi pain mother children I don't recognize my people anymore. I feel Somalia is lost. There is no Somalia. It is just a name. Hawa Abdi name feel lost people Similar Authors Brooke Axtell activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali activist Assata Shakur activist Arun Manilal Gandhi activist Arthur Hertzberg activist Arlene Holt Baker activist All Authors