Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan () (born ) is a

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and peace ambassador. She is a recipient of the Stuttgart Peace Prize.

Life

Adan was born to parents who were from two warring tribes in

Marsabit Marsabit is a town in the northern Marsabit County in Kenya. It is situated in the former Eastern Province and is almost surrounded by the Marsabit National Park. The town is located east of the centre of the East African Rift at an elevation o ...

, Northern Kenya. After her training as a lawyer, she returned to her hometown in order to promote peace between the conflicting

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, Gabra and

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s. In 2003, she founded Horn of Africa Development Initiative, a

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she uses to foster peace and advocate for education in Kenya. Through the Horn of Africa Development Initiative, Adan launched a programme called "Shoot to score, not to Kill", that uses

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to engage Kenyan youths in advocacy for peace. Horn of Africa Development Initiative (HODI) is based on four supporting pillars: Advocacy, Education, Economic sustainability and Inter-ethnic Cohesion. Through HODI she started a programme "Breaking the Silence" which has four modules: Be yourself, be healthy, be empowered and know something about finance. Fatuma Adan was the first African woman to be elected as member of the in 2015. In 2017 she was nominated as part of the Dream Team of the Global Goals World Cup. In January 2011, Adan received the Stuttgart Peace Prize for "combining soccer and emancipation". In 2013 she was invited to talk about her work with the Horn of Africa Development Initiative at the

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on 20 September 2013. The talks were organised by the

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and other groups for the

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.Fatuma Abdulkadir Adan
Geneva Peace Talks, UN, Retrieved 27 February 2016 Adan won
Commonwealth Points of Light Award
in 2018 for her work with HODI bringing communities together and championing the rights of women and girls.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Adan, Fatuma Abdulkadir 1978 births Living people Kenyan activists Kenyan women activists 21st-century Kenyan lawyers Kenyan women lawyers Year of birth uncertain People from Marsabit County 21st-century women lawyers