Ashwaq Moharram

Ashwaq Moharram is a Yemeni physician and activist, noted for her work dealing with starvation in the Yemeni city of Hudaydah.

Life

Moharram is married with two children. In 2016 after working as a doctor for twenty years she was named one of the BBC 100 Women for her achievements. She was then living alone in Hudaydah as her husband had taken their children to Jordan.[1] Moharram has said of her work: "I'm seeing the same thing I used to watch on TV when the famine unfolded in Somalia. I never thought I would see this in Yemen." Moharram has worked for numerous international aid organisations, but since 2015 has worked independently, delivering medicine and food in her car, serving as a mobile clinic.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 "One woman's lonely struggle against famine in Yemen". BBC News. 22 September 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
  2. ↑ "Ashwaq Muharram, il medico donna che salva (da sola) lo Yemen" (in Italian). Corriere Della Sera. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
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