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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Half the Sky on PBS

Posted on Sep 27, 2012 in Edna Adan, Hospital News | 0 comments We are so looking forward to watching Half the Sky on American television Oct. 1 and Oct 2. For those of you without access to PBS, you can pre-order the DVD from Amazon.com Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide is a movement to confront the greatest moral challenge of our time: the oppression of women and girls across the world. Inspired by the groundbreaking book...
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Half the Sky Website Launches

Posted on May 12, 2012 in Hospital News | 0 comments The Half the Sky website is now live at www.halftheskymovement.org! Half the Sky’s Facebook page is at www.facebook.com/halftheskymovement As you may know, we are involved in a project called Half the Sky based on the book by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Today the book becomes a movement as Half the Sky launches a new website to share stories of women and girls overcoming...
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Mothers Day 2012 Newsletter

Posted on May 5, 2012 in Hospital News | 0 comments Edna Adan Hospital was 10 years old on the 9th of March, 2012. During the past 10 years we delivered over 12,000 babies and treated over 14,000 patients. The achievement that we are most proud of is we have trained over 700 students, many of them in nursing and midwifery but also belonging to other disciplines such as laboratory technology and pharmacy technicians. Statistics $2000 is what we...
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Skirball Center Interview

Posted on Jan 4, 2012 in Edna Adan, Somaliland | 0 comments The Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles has published an account of Edna’s visit there in late November, including an interview. Edna discusses the challenges she faced in building the hospital and talks about her work now. “I try to give women in my community an opportunity. They are my army, my soldiers.” The Skirball is host to an exhibit Women Hold Up Half the Sky based...
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Meet Edna in Los Angeles

Posted on Nov 12, 2011 in Edna Adan | 3 comments We’ve bumped this message back to the top of the page. It’s coming up soon, the weekend before Thanksgiving. Edna Adan plans to visit the Women Hold Up Half The Sky exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles on Nov. 19, beginning at noon. If you can be in the vicinity, then you are invited to join her as she views the exhibit for the first time. Edna’s work in...
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Half the Sky exhibit opening in L.A.

Posted on Oct 15, 2011 in Edna Adan | 1 comment The book Half the Sky is the theme for a new exhibit at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, Oct. 27 through March 11, 2012. The book is by our friends and supporters Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, who include a chapter about Edna Adan and the Hospital. The Los Angeles exhibit also features Edna prominently. Nicholas Kristof, himself, will speak there on October 25. Buy Tickets...
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Half The Sky coming to PBS

Posted on May 18, 2011 in Somaliland | 1 comment Countless many supporters of the Edna Hospital have come to us by way of the best-selling book Half The Sky, by Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Those supporters, in particular, will be pleased to learn that there is a 6-hour documentary now being produced for broadcast on PBS. Primetime PBS Broadcast for Half the Sky The two-part, four-hour broadcast will premiere as a...
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FGM: Torturing Girls

Posted on May 12, 2011 in Somaliland | 0 comments In the third article in a series from Somaliland, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes about the persistence of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) despite concentrated efforts to eliminate the practice. “This is one of the most pervasive human rights abuses worldwide, with three million girls mutilated each year in Africa alone, according to United Nations estimates. A hospital...
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The Importance of Contraception

Posted on May 9, 2011 in Somaliland | 0 comments Even as we were still reeling from the “avalanche” of donations prompted by Nicholas Kristof’s column last week, he – again – mentions Edna Hospital in his Sunday NY Times column. The context this time is sad. A woman died in Somaliland of complications from childbirth leaving 8 children without a mother. She is among about 350,000 women who die in childbirth...
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Celebrating Mothers Day

Posted on May 5, 2011 in Hospital News | 0 comments Our friend, Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has, again, written about Edna Adan. This time, the occasion is Mother’s Day. Beyond Flowers for Mom “In a few days Americans will celebrate Mother’s Day with roses, chocolates and fine dinners, inducing warm and fuzzy feelings all around. But, in addition, I’ll bet helping mothers less fortunate...
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Edna Hospital: “Dazzling”

Posted on Dec 19, 2010 in Blog, Hospital News | 2 comments We are so pleased that our good friend and longtime supporter, Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof, has once again linked here from the New York Times. The Gifts of Hope: “Edna Hospital (ednahospital.org) is a dazzling maternity hospital in Somaliland, an area with one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Edna Adan Ismail, a Somali nurse-midwife who rose in the ranks of...
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Doing Something Positive with Grief

Posted on Oct 10, 2010 in Hospital News | 0 comments A small newspaper in Washington state, The Columbian, recently published an article about one of their local nurses, a recent widow, who was inspired by Nicholas Kristof’s book Half The Sky. Joanne Antonelli found comfort in her grief by volunteering for a month at the Edna Adan University Hospital. First she was numb. Then anger ripped through her. A bone-deep, ever-present anguish set...
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Divorced at Age 10

Posted on Mar 4, 2010 in Somaliland | 0 comments Our friend Nicholas Kristof writes in today’s New York Times about a child-bride in Yemen – which is located very near to Somaliland – who was granted a divorce at the age of ten. She is now a best-selling author! Nujood’s memoir spent five weeks as the No. 1 best-seller in France. It is being published in 18 other languages, including her own native language of...
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International anti-FGM Day

Posted on Feb 5, 2010 in Edna Adan | 1 comment February 6 is the International Day Against Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and a panel was convened by Nicholas Kristof at the conference last week in Davos, Switzerland to discuss the issue: An estimated 120 to 140 million women have been subject to this harmful and dangerous practice and 3 million girls continue to be at risk each year. The practice persists because it is sustained by...
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Breaking a Conspiracy of Silence

Posted on Dec 27, 2009 in Edna Adan, Somaliland | 0 comments In this review of Half the Sky in the NY Review of Books, Sue Halpern discusses the plight of women in the developing world. For Westerners, the words “gender inequality” are likely to suggest pay differentials and glass ceilings and old-boy networks. For the women and girls Kristof and WuDunn write about, gender inequality is more elemental. It takes the form of sexual slavery and...
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Decade’s Most Important Book

Posted on Dec 22, 2009 in Hospital News, Somaliland | 0 comments A writer at the Huffington Post has suggested that Nicholas Kristof’s book Half the Sky should be considered… The most important book of the decade Steve Leveen writes: But what if we could have known in 1962, the year of its publication, that Silent Spring would contain a message of change necessary to save our very world? My guess is that we would have acted faster to head off what...
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Nicholas Kristof on Oprah

Posted on Sep 26, 2009 in Hospital News | 0 comments Nicholas Kristof has taped a full one hour on Oprah where he speaks about his new book, Half the Sky, in which Edna Adan is featured prominently. This Oprah program is tentatively scheduled for broadcast on Thursday, October 1. Visit Half The Sky homepage Recommend on FacebookTweet about it...
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Nicholas Kristof on Oprah

Posted on Sep 7, 2009 in Hospital News | 0 comments Pullitzer Prize winner and NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has taped a full hour program with Oprah where he discusses his new book, Half the Sky, which prominently features Edna Adan. We don’t yet know the exact date that the show will be broadcast but is expected to be shown in early October. Watch for it! The book, and the TV show, profile heroic women in the developing world and...
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NY Times article features Edna Adan

Posted on Aug 19, 2009 in Edna Adan | 0 comments New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn will publish their new book in September, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. That book is previewed in the NY Times Sunday magazine issue of August 23, 2009 and it can be read online here: The Womens Crusade. Edna Adan is featured in the article. Here is an excerpt: An obstetric fistula,...
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A Stoning in Somalia

Posted on Nov 14, 2008 in Hospital News, Somaliland | 0 comments We are so pleased that the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Nicholas Kristof has, once again, linked here from his Blog at the New York Times. A Stoning in Somalia “…Incidentally, for anyone interested in Somalia, there is a superb aid project in the northern breakaway republic of Somaliland: a maternity hospital run by Edna Adan, a former U.N. official who used her savings and...
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