Zainab Hassan leads the The National Library restoration initiative of the Heritage Institute for Po
Zainab Hassan leads the The National Library restoration initiative of the Heritage Institute for Policy Studies in Mogadishu, Somalia. From 2007 to 2012, she was a Program Officer for The Minneapolis Foundation where she led the Foundation’s strategic focus areas of Transform Education of the community grantmaking, and served as key staff and managed special purpose funds. As a writer, poet, and human rights and social justice activist, Zainab has been an active member of the African diaspora philanthropy, and the Somali diaspora civil society. Hassan is working with the Heritage Institute for Policy Studies, Mogadishu’sfirst think tank, to restore the building and hoping to tap Somalia’s business community and diaspora for funds, along with private investors. A six-page proposal for the library project outlines the goals for the four-storey building that crumbled along with the rest of the city when Somalia’s government collapsed in 1991. Three floors will be divided by language — Somali, Arabic and English — and carry fiction and non-fiction books, journals, text books and DVDs. -- source link
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