Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey Of A Desert Nomad

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Currently, the organization has international headquarters in Vienna, Austria and has regional offices in Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Monaco, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Djibouti , Sierra Leone and Poland.

Through projects like “Save a little desert flower”, which seeks to protect little girls in Africa from FGM.WARIS DIRIE ‚Desert Flower‘ and ‚Desert Dawn‘ (summary of and background to the autobiography) fundus. In 2007 the French President Nicolas Sarkozy presented her with the “Chévalier de la Légion d’Honneur”.

From the deserts of Somalia to the world of high fashion, she battles against oppression and emerges a real champion. Tačiau planuojamos priverstinės vestuvės buvo paskutinis lašas, paskatinęs ją, be jokio tikslaus plano, pabėgti iš gimtųjų kraštų. Waris Dirie (the name means desert flower) lives a double life – by day she is a famous model and UN spokeswoman on women’s rights in Africa, at night she dreams of her native Somalia. The World Demographic Association nominated her as the first woman for the “Prix de la Gènèration” and the Martin Buber Foundation nominated her as the first woman for the “Martin Buber Gold Medal”. Waris Dirie speaks in her book about her anger towards Africa, a continent dominated by corruption and daily violence.It is also a well-told and truly engaging autobiography with an old-fashioned, Algeresque appeal: obscure African camel-tender becomes internationally admired (and vindicated) high-life heroine. But the wounds of the past, and especially the terrible experience of her genital mutilation, follow her in her new life, make her life difficult and prevent her from enjoying some things, though she is surely satisfied with what she has done.

Cathy is also the author of a memoir about her life in rural Pennsylvania, The Birdhouse Chronicles, a book first written as her master’s thesis while she attended Penn State’s MFA program in creative writing. In 2010, the Foundation was re-named “Desert Flower Foundation” to reflect the broader approach to addressing Female Genital Mutilation though economic projects in Africa. There are side effects, urination takes 10 minutes; menstruation is painful and the look is horrendous.Discussion about problematic tribal rites like female genital mutilation is best done from within the culture as well as from the outside. The fact that it is growing, not declining is awful, and that the practise is spreading due to those faiths and nationalitys that carry this practise out are emigrating to other lands, is a revolting thought. A procedure that kills thousands of children and leaves women with a life of pain and complications due to their clitorus and labia being removed and sewn up so they are clean and ready for marriage often leaving a hole the size of a matchstick for peeing out of. She runs away to Mogadishu and eventually gets a job as a maid for an uncle who is the Somalian ambassador to England. Waris is prepared to risk being killed by some fundamentalist because of all the things she has to tell.