Devoted her life to Afghan ‘refugee education’Sakena Yacoobi, the mother of Afghan education, has been a pioneering and devoted refugee educator for 21 years with the belief that education is the key to social reconstruction even under severe conditions of war and occupation. Dr. Yacoobi began educating teachers in Afghan refugee camps where they had […]
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Disseminating emergency aid at the forefront of conflict in Africa ∙ Middle East Gino Strada is an Italian surgeon who, for 28 years, has been providing humanitarian relief to the victims of war and poverty, and refugees around the world. He began his career as a war surgeon with the International Committee of the Red
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Dr. Gino Strada, who has provided medical and surgical care in 17 African and Middle Eastern nations for a quarter-century, and Sakena Yacoobi, who established multiple refugee-educational programs against considerable odds in Afghanistan, were named as co-recipients of the 2nd annual Sunhak Peace Price. An Italian surgeon and an Afghan educator who consistently contributed to
