I am the sister of the martyr. I am the aunt of the potato seller at the local market. I am the daughter of the local sheikh. I am the injured of the revolution, the protester, the jailed, the detained. I am the tortured, the exiled, the kidnapped, the raped. I am the veiled, the non-veiled, I am a beautiful soul. I am a Somali woman. …………………………………. Sahra Profile…Brief Sahro Ahmed Koshin is a Dutch-Somali poet and author of two poetry anthologies as well as an upcoming biography of her father Ahmed H. Koshin. Sahro holds a double MA degrees in Cultural Anthropology (Leiden University) and Development Studies (Radboud University), respectively. A Goodwill Ambassador with Globcall International, she is a Peace builder and a Development Expert with over 10 years of international work experience in Institutional Reform, Gender Analysis/Research, Human Rights, Post-conflict Reconstruction, Complex Emergencies, African Diaspora Issues & Forced Migration. Sahro has worked in various (post) conflict countries such as Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan and North-eastern Kenya with with different organizations such as CARE, Cordaid, The UN, Hivos as well with LNGOs and line ministries in Puntland, Somalia. A Community Board Member of WorldPulse, Sahro is a PhD candidate(Gender, governance, Somalia), Sahro is currently based in Garowe where she’d been supporting the Ministry of Education in Puntland with gender issues in the education sector. Sahro is also involved in various cultural projects such as the ERAYO (Words, in Somali) cultural project which was a project implemented in the Netherlands and that was meant to support Somali refugee children to write down their thought and feelings on home through poetry and art. The project led to the compilation of all the poems and artworks submitted by the refugee children and the publication of a book in 2003. She is the founder of the Puntand Women Writers Association (PWWA) based in Garowe where she runs diverse literary activities encourages women and young girls to express themselves through poetry and art…
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