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Somalia's 'Mama Hawa' Wins Prestigious Refugee Award

Hawa Aden Mohamed, the founder and director of the Galkayo Education Centre for Peace and Development in Puntland, north-eastern Somalia, has been declared the winner of the 2012 Nansen Refugee Award. Mohamed is a former refugee who chose to return to Somalia in 1995, where she launched an education programme to assist people uprooted by the country's persistent conflict and recurring droughts.
Somalia's Hawa Aden Mohamed Wins Nansen Refugee Award

PHOTO ESSAYS: Somalia's Hawa Aden Mohamed Wins Nansen Refugee Award

Mama Hawa Aden Mohamed oversees a tailoring class at the Galkayo Education Centre for Peace and Development (GECPD) in Somalia.

F Juez/UNHCR

Mama Hawa Aden Mohamed oversees a tailoring class at the Galkayo Education Centre for Peace and Development (GECPD) in Somalia.

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