Mar 07 2010
This past Thursday night was a great day – we held the graduation of the third group of General Registered Nurses to be trained at our hospital.
At first we had planned to hold the ceremony in the open but were pushed indoors by the rains.
The graduation ceremony of the 34 girls and 11 boys was [...]
Mar 04 2010
Encouraging news out of Afghanistan:
Some mullahs in Afghanistan are distributing condoms. Others are quoting the Quran to encourage longer breaks between births. Health experts say contraception is starting to catch on in a country with the world’s second highest maternal death rate.
Afghanistan has one of the world’s highest fertility rates, averaging more than six [...]
Dec 27 2009
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 [...]
Dec 22 2009
We would like to thank the “Friends of Edna Hospital Society in Vancouver” for a generous donation of US$1800 they have sent to the Edna Adan Hospital as well as another amount of US$850 they have sent to the Las Anood Hospital through us with instructions that we buy medical supplies for that hospital.
The money [...]
Dec 22 2009
A writer at the Huffington Post has suggested that Nicolas 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 [...]
Dec 13 2009
Edna Adan was at the University of Pretoria this past Thursday to accept the Chancellor’s Medal for her outstanding contribution to humanity, and particularly with regard to helping the under-privileged people of Somaliland to realize their right to health.
Here is the original article by Saeed Mohamed
Dr. Edna Adan spoke at the university’s graduation ceremonies [...]
Nov 18 2009
Edna Hospital was 7 years old in March 2009.
During that period, we received patients from all corners of the Horn of Africa as well as providing care to UN and international staff and their families in Somaliland, and to screen or treat refugees brought to us for treatment by the United Nations.
Among the new initiatives [...]
Sep 26 2009
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.
Sep 07 2009
Pullitzer Prize winner and NY Times columnist Nicolas 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 [...]
Jun 24 2009
We have just had the graduation of the first ever Community Midwives trained in Somaliland. This is the ‘new army’ that we have trained for 18 months at our hospital to assist women living in remote areas of our country where there have never been trained midwives before. These 21 Community Midwives will undoubtedly make [...]
May 12 2009
Saving Somaliland is a radio interview conducted by Radio Netherlands Worldwide (in English!) in which you can hear Edna speak about her work.
Despite the grave problems that the whole region is facing, such as piracy, terrorist violence and drought, Edna Adan has been able to build a private hospital that focuses on mother and [...]
Apr 15 2009
Iraqi Kurdish four-year-old Shwen screams during her circumcision in Suleimaniyah on April 14, 2009. The parliament in Iraq’s northern autonomous region of Kurdistan is preparing to outlaw female circumcision, according to a woman MP and a doctor who had long battled to halt the widespread practice. The German non-government group Wadi carried out research in [...]
Nov 14 2008
We are so pleased that the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Nicolas 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 [...]
Aug 27 2008
Nicolas Kristof, the Pulitzer Prize winning columnist at the New York Times, writing in a new blog entry has again cited Edna Adan as being someone whom he “hugely” admires.
I’ve often recommended that young people go and live abroad for a time, the better to understand the world — and also the better to [...]
Jul 03 2008
The new Edna Adan shop is now open for business at Cafe Press! There are lots of different items to choose among. We hope you find something that you will enjoy.
Only, please remember that the prices here all reflect our cost exactly. The Edna Hospital makes nothing when you purchase things here. But we do [...]