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Somalia's Champion for Displaced Girls: Dahabo Hassan Maow

The Daily Beast publishes article on the WRC's 2013 Voices of Courage award winner Dahabo Hassan Maow.

At just 14 years old, Dahabo Hassan Maow was caught in the crossfire of her native Somalia’s civil war and injured so gravely that doctors were forced to amputate her leg at the knee. With no family (she was orphaned as a baby) or support, she fled her homeland, traveling by unpaved road to what she hoped would be the relative safety of Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee camp, in Kenya.

Read the full article on the Daily Beast here.