A Tribute to Edna Adan

Posted on Jun 2, 2013 in Edna Adan | 0 comments by Chuck Cavanaugh Edna Adan retired from a career at the World Health Organization and she could have picked out a rocking chair and put it someplace with a good view of a beach (Edna loves the beach). But she didn’t do that. Instead, she considered the desperate plight of mothers in her war-ravaged (but now peaceful and democratic) homeland and decided to put all of her savings and her...
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Why I Support the Edna Adan University Hospital

Posted on May 31, 2013 in Edna Adan | 0 comments …and Why I’m Asking You to Join Me Originally published to The Huffington Post by an anonymous donor I’ve donated to support the Edna Adan University Hospital since I learned about its founder in 2011. Edna Adan is a remarkable woman who came to my attention thanks to a New York Times column written by Nicholas Kristof on Mother’s Day two years ago. As you may know,...
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Edna as Keynote Speaker on End Fistula Day

Posted on May 23, 2013 in Edna Adan, Hospital News | 2 comments Edna Serves as Keynote Speaker at International Day to End Obstetric Fistula The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) designated May 23 as International Day to End Obstetric Fistula. This was the first year of “Fistula Day,” marking the tenth anniversary of the UNFPA’s Campaign to End Fistula. Who better to serve as keynote speaker at today’s celebration in Hargeisa...
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Baby Zuber Born with Heart Condition

Posted on May 14, 2013 in Edna Adan, Hospital News | 18 comments I’m so grateful for all the support we have received from our friends, especially on the occasion of Mother’s Day. There is no better way to honor your mother than to help a mother who wants to give her baby all of the love and care that every mother wants to give to her child. Let me share with you yet one more reason that makes me happy to have built my hospital. UPDATE: May...
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Mothers Day 2013

Posted on May 7, 2013 in Edna Adan | 0 comments Although I have lost mine a few years ago, I appreciate even more the value of mothers and wish to extend my best wishes to all mothers on the occasion of Mother’s Day. Being ‘a hospital for mothers,’ we know firsthand the challenges women face everywhere but particularly in poor countries like ours, Somaliland. Since two years ago Mother’s Day when we were so greatly...
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Contrasting Somalia and Somaliland

Posted on May 6, 2013 in Blog, Edna Adan, Somaliland | 1 comment Yan Digilov, Chief Strategist for Firestarter, talks about his discovery of a place called Somaliland which has never been recognized by any government and was thoroughly neglected by the major NGO’s. See below for full video. Here are excerpts. “As a hypothetical exercise, picture in your head a country in Africa limping into the end of the 20th Century facing widespread disease,...
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Edna Speaks About FGM

Posted on Apr 28, 2013 in Edna Adan, Somaliland | 3 comments During Edna’s recent visit to the USA, she was invited to Ohio University to participate in a conference, Women and Children’s Health in Africa: Clinical and Social Perspectives. Edna’s presentation is wide-ranging. She begins by speaking about Female Genital Mutilation, and then goes on to discuss her important education-related work. Educating against FGM while also training...
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Hospital to Receive Anaesthesia Machine

Posted on Apr 18, 2013 in Edna Adan, Hospital News | 4 comments Following the Women in the World Summit, Edna visited the New York City offices of Gradian Health Systems. Gradian Health is a global health social enterprise that was created to provide access to safer anaesthesia in the developing world. UPDATE: June 17, 2013 Anaesthesia Machine has Arrived! Edna says, “We have not unpacked it and are leaving it standing in its crate in a corner for...
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A message of Appreciation from Edna concerning Ayaan

Posted on Apr 7, 2013 in Edna Adan | 7 comments I have been in communications for over a year with the Australian team. The list is long and each of them had a role to play in Ayaan’s case. I appreciate everything that the doctors, the members of the Brisbane Rotary Club, and the Immigration experts have done to secure the visa for Ayaan and for myself to accompany and support her during the many reconstructive operations her condition...
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International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation

Posted on Feb 6, 2013 in Edna Adan | 2 comments Today is International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation, which is a condition suffered by approximately 140 million women worldwide. Edna Adan has always used her hospital and her notoriety to educate the people of Somaliland to reject this practice, which has extraordinarily deep roots in the culture throughout the Horn of Africa. On this day, Edna has provided the following...
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Year End Newsletter 2012

Posted on Dec 17, 2012 in Edna Adan, Hospital News, Somaliland | 3 comments 2012 has been another busy year which also saw the graduation of our first 21 midwives who obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Midwifery. As always, training of health workers remains our priority because without competent health workers, patients cannot be looked after as they should. For this reason, we have launched the Edna Adan University where 200 students have registered with us to...
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The Muslim Mother Theresa

Posted on Oct 1, 2012 in Edna Adan | 1 comment We have so much news to report! Of course, the biggest news is that Half the Sky can be seen on America’s PBS beginning this evening in the USA and Canada. Coming soon to other countries. You may pre-order the DVD at Amazon.com. Edna’s portion will be shown at the beginning of Part 2, on Tuesday evening. Other news includes the award which Edna received on Saturday in New York’s...
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