Project 04/2018: Education Sponsorship for a knee amputated young Somalien refugee Abdirahman Hasan
Abdirahman (nickname Abdi) is a 10 ½ years old keen boy, who with his mother escaped from the civil war troubles out of Somalia in 2016. Abdi lived with his family in the capital Mogadischu, where he has grown up together with 9 siblings (5 brothers and 4 sisters) until his 4th year of life, as one day
a bomb had ruptured his both legs close at his play area.
From now on everything has changed in the still young life of Abdi. His father left the extended family
After Abdi got his first knee operation, the siblings have been distributed to relatives or strewed about unknown habitations inside the country, a young brother died. Posed on one’s own, being threat and humiliated, the mother and Abdi fled, after the second operation of his knees, which was still done in Mogadischu, by ship across Turkey, Italy at first to Swizerland. There they remained for at least 10 months, whereby Abdi has got three additional surgeries on his amputated knees.
At the beginning of 2017 Abdi and his mother have got the legal permission to enter Germany where both came to Wetzlar across Frankfurt and Giessen (refugee registration). Here since about one year they live in a refugee home.
In Wetzlar, Germany Abdi went to the Albert-Schweitzer-School until summer 2018. Now with the upcoming autumn school year Abdi will change to the 5th class at the August-Bebel-School, Wetzlar.
In the hospital in Wetzlar Abdi was operated again on his knees and he has got two adjusted lower limb prosthesis. But the prosthesis causes still greater problems with a lot of pain. The stumps bleed and another surgery is planned at the University Hospital in Giessen.
Meanwhile Abdi speaks a good German and he loves his school education. In the refugee home he translates very often when other refugees have linguistic and understanding problems.
In spite of his special disabled situation, Abdi is a keen and a good humoured boy who will not surrender on his fate, but rather a forward-facing boy who will learn as much he can get on education. Abdi would like to support his learning effect by having a computer or a laptop/tablet and a printer. The Dieter & Bettina Wulkow Foundation wants to realize this wish of Adbi as soon as possible.
First of all for the new school year the Foundation has outfitted Abdi with new youth clothings in a proper style and with a modern schoolbag. Abdi was very pleased about the gifts.
Photos: all by Dieter & Bettina Wulkow Foundation with the friendly permit of Abdirahman and his mother Mudah for publishing
Wetzlar, August 1st 2018
