22/04/2025
Amina Hassan was born in 1992 in Mogadishu, Somalia, a city ravaged by civil war. By age 6, she’d lost her father to violence and her mother to illness. She fled with her younger brother, Ali, to a Kenyan refugee camp, where they survived on one meal a day and slept under a tarp. Amina sold scavenged plastic bottles to buy pencils and paper, teaching Ali to read by firelight. “Education is our weapon,” she’d say.