Ahmed Omar

Fellow

Ahmed Omar

Cofounder of The BOMA Project, Kura, designed and implements a data driven, high-impact, gender-focused poverty graduation program that targets ultra-poor women at the epicenter of extreme poverty, climate change, and the true last mile of economic and social isolation. He is a passionate champion for the rights of women and girls and an agent of …

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Op-Ed

This Fathers’ Day, teach children about women’s empowerment

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In the drylands of Marsabit, my home county in northern Kenya, people have traditionally regarded women as weak and timid. My people are nomadic livestock herders known as “pastoralists.” Livestock are our major asset and men own them, trade them, and handle the money. Women raise the children, cook, and depend on men to make …

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