Draft:Anna Qabale Duba

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Anna Qabale Duba is a female

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Early life and educational background

Duba was born in Torbi, a village in Marsabit County, Kenya. She was the youngest child in a polygamous family of 19 siblings and 3 mothers, of which her mother was the first.

Mandela Washington Fellows in the United States.[3]

At the age of 12, Duba was subjected to female genital mutilation and escaped forced early marriage at age 14.[4][2]

She founded the Qabale Duba Foundation.[citation needed]

She also promotes the development of pastorialist's community in Kenya.[5]

Awards

In year 2022, Duba was crowned the first recipient of the Aster Guardians Global Nursing Award[6][5] and used the funding to support educational options in her village.[7][4] In year 2019, she won the Global Citizens' People's Choice Award in New York.[1][3] She was also the former Miss Tourism Kenya.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Anna Qabale Duba, the African Nightingale". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2023-02-27.
  2. ^ a b Odhiambo, Rhoda (2022-05-13). "Kenyan fighting FGM crowned world's best nurse". BBC. Retrieved 2024-04-08.
  3. ^ a b Sankar, Anjana (2022-10-13). "Nurse from Kenya builds a school after winning $250,000 prize in Dubai". The National. Retrieved 2024-05-27.
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  5. ^ a b African health care workers transform rural communities | CNN, 2022-08-22, retrieved 2023-10-26
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