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Awadeya Mahmoud Quotes

born 1963

Awadeya Mahmoud Koko is a Sudanese woman, who is known for being the founder and chairperson of the Women's Food and Tea Sellers' Cooperative of Khartoum, along with the Women's Multi-Purpose Cooperative of Khartoum. On 28 March 2016, the United States Department of State announced her as one of the recipients of the 2016 International Women of Courage Award.

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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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Awadeya Mahmoud (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.