Black Excellence: Dr. Hawa Abdi

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  • Dr. Hawa Abdi
  • Dr. Hawa Abdi
  • Dr. Hawa Abdi
  • Dr. Hawa Abdi
  • Dr. Hawa Abdi

Refugee Mother

After Dr. Abdi became Somali's first female gynecologist she opened the Hawa Abdi Camp for Internal Displaced Persons, a clinic, on her family's ancestral land near the town of Afgooye. 

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