women-from-sudan

"The difficulties and stigma I faced due to polio challenged me and turned me into the Sara Gadalla that I am."

"Let your children get the vaccination against polio. A small dose will prevent a big disaster."

"I suffered a lot from the negative way people in my community looked at me when I was a little girl and as a teenager, and certainly I felt very sad and in all the stages of my life as I tried to overcome the feeling that I was less than the other girls. But, thank God and thanks to my family, I could overcome that."

"One of the most difficult things for a child, is to be among other children, but feel different, in a country where disability is a stigma."

"I hope the campaign will reach every child in my country, so that everybody grows up healthy."

"If I could change anything, then it would be the way society looks at people with different disabilities."

"“The beauty of the online classifieds platform, however, is that it doesn’t require heavy tech, and you can do a lot on it while keeping costs fairly low.”"

"People and businesses weren’t harnessing the full power of the internet. Tarneem on the problems she saw that led to the creation of Alsoug"

""There are places I can’t go to and have to rely on male employees to go there. For example, I can’t go to the car market because it’s a male-dominated market and women aren’t taken seriously there.”Tarneem on the challenges women in Tech face"

"“That’s actually what we became very good at. We basically learned to build technology to get around the limitations. We built a lot of stuff ourselves. We couldn’t rely on other software solutions often because they weren’t working. We just kept building more and more workarounds and more and more of our own things. even things like SMS gateways, in most countries a startup will never bother about building its own SMS gateway as they will just probably plug in to something. But here we built our own. So we just had to be ingenious about that.”"

"“Generally, even in the corporate space, there is just not a lot of women actually. And it’s a shame because Sudanese women are very strong, they are very independent, they participate a lot in society. So we have them in senior roles but both in government and in the corporate world, there is not enough of them in the final decision-making positions.""

"“What I find very inspirational is the fact that notwithstanding all of this, when you speak to young Sudanese, they are incredibly keen to access the outside world. Wherever they are able to, they are doing it. Even though things like games platforms for example, if they get access to them, they play them. Their capacity to learn tech and start using tech is crazy.”"

"“We have a good entrepreneurial spirit and now that the ecosystem is being improved, I think that entrepreneurial spirit is going to mean that change is going to come very rapidly.”"

"“You’re having a conversation with someone and you realise they haven’t used Google before. And you say, ‘how do you search for stuff?’ and they reply ‘I asked someone or I saw a post on Facebook or a message on WhatsApp’. But the ideal going and doing a search on Google is not something everyone just knows here which is crazy because the first thing in this internet age is people know how to search.""

"I am proud to be able to share my own story so people can better understand the true plight of refugees. I want to use my own experience to educate others about a very real issue that – in one way or another – really does affect all of us"

"I’m not much of a hoarder of my gifts and blessings. I take it in and I let go."

"humble ’cause any minute could be your time to shine, so be wise about your actions."

"I’ve never met a student with such a strong determination,” Deng’s English teacher told the Express-News."

"I think Ataui, through the hardships that she’s had in life, through what she’s seen, it’s probably made her stronger,” Corinne Nicolas, president of Trump Model Management, told the San Antonio Express-News"

"Ataui was in demand by every agent in New York", Nicolas said."

"I’ve always been very vocal about my frustrations around race in this industry"

"If I had this access when I was growing up, I probably would have turned out better. We need it. We need to save the children from what’s really happening"

"Some young Syrians struggle to remember a time before violence and loss, before they had to flee their homes and become refugees. We provide a safe space for them to play and be children again"

"It’s still so strange when people come up and recognise me. But I am so happy to inspire others in similar situations to mine"

"Put your best foot forward. I am happy to announce that I am officially done with the fashion industry, I will be moving back to Australia In [sic] order to live the life that I fully deserved. Which is real life. I can no longer deal with the fakes and the lies. My life is too short for this dramatic life. I am thankful and grateful for every sweet souls [sic] that I have crossed path with."

"The war displaced my whole family and my children never healed from the horror they felt."

"Their families are still hoping that they’re alive. They don’t want to believe they’re dead."

"The people at the sit-in were like our children. We had suffered severely under the last regime, and we had hopes for change."

"They confiscate our belongings and take them to the police station, they make us pay a fine and then a week later they do it again. It’s because we’re not socially acceptable. They don’t want to see us on the streets."

"What WFP is doing is not easy. It's what we need the most in Sudan because you’re mobilizing food around the world for people."

"When I arrived on the first day of the sit-in, I didn’t find human beings, I found lions determined to fight for their rights."

"Do anything to help, even if it’s just chanting and clapping against the regime."

"None of the existing workers unions defended us because they cared more about working with the government than speaking for regular people."

"I am optimistic because, unlike in the 1985 revolution, all of Sudan is participating. The new president will have to be fair with men and women."

"“Our main mandate was to advise the Secretary General on his climate priority, his climate strategy and on engagements with various countries”"

"Human survival, in a situation of resources degradation, hunger, poverty and uncontrolled climate migration, will make conflict an inevitable result."

"Science has forecasted, many more countries will join this list if we did not take the right measures now, and if we did not start adaptation specially in Africa."

"The second valuable asset is knowledge."

"The strongest and most valuable asset is having other other options"

""Many countries boast about pledging carbon-neutrality by 2030 or 2050. But I don´t think these pledges are a proper expression of climate ambition or something to be proud of. For us living through the climate crisis with continuous impacts, this time frame seems too far in the future. We are now in 2020 and the impacts we are feeling are already very severe. Government pledges don’t mean much to us. We need concrete action now."

"“If we continue discussing one problem without discussing other related problems, it's not going to be enough. Finding holistic, wicked solutions to a problem is the only way we can survive.”"

""There are a lot of current situations where climate change is causing conflicts and threatening the security of populations. When I say security, I mean securities; energy security, food security, water security amongst others"."

"“The students held demonstrations against some of the dictatorship’s actions. The next day, some people from the regime came to our exam hall where we were taking our first semester exams. They tore up the exam papers and they threw two students from the window. One of them died. One of them was seriously injured. It was terrifying”."

""I have zero doubts that the climate movement around the world will succeed and come to a very good result. What I’m actually worried about is you. You have to choose the right side of this battle”."

"Don't talk about my flavor unless you know that my flavor is insurrection it is rebellion, resistance."

"You don't know compromise until you have rebuilt your home for the third time."

"I use my words to raise the alarm on the conflicts of our time...in the hopes that someone might hear something that moves them."

"Woman walks into a warzone and has warriors cowering at her feet."

"There's always more to write."