Jan 27,2009
It is one more step and another landmark in our quest to
take care of the education and healthcare of our people ourselves and to develop
our own country. It was about a decade and half ago, when we first launched the
Amoud University Project, which revolutionized the way we educate our youth and
provide healthcare for our people. The project, as we all know, has changed the
landscape of education throughout the Somali inhabited regions of the Horn of
Africa, where one can now find, at least, one institution of higher learning in
each major town or city.
The acquisition by Amoud University of Al Hayat Hospital, a fully modern and
fully equipped medical facility this month of January 2010, through the dedication
and hard work of Amoud Foundation, one of the plethora of organizations that
sprang up after the launch of Amoud University Project must not be left without
a word from us. We must pay homage to Amoud Foundation, Amoud University and
all the individuals and organizations that participated in the realization of
the Al Hayat Hospital Project.
Many years ago, we realized that government programs and government resources
alone would not help our children, nor would they fully attend to and address
the healthcare needs of our people. We knew that we have to come up with a new
mindset, a mindset that involved a changed attitude on how we could take care
of our destiny in our own hands. We knew that no one would do it for us and
so we embarked on that Amoud University Project, whose fruits, we continue to
reap each day that passes.
We had to overcome so many prejudices and especially the notion that governments
alone can deliver for us the education and healthcare that our people were in
dire need. We had to overcome the notion that only money and large amounts of
it would help our people and we had to demonstrate that we could change our
destiny ourselves once we put our hands and minds together and the Al Hayat
Hospital is yet again another demonstration of that mindset and another milestone
in that road that we chose for our people – the road to be self-reliant,
hard working and seizing our own future each and every day that passes.
We must, once again, say “Hurray!!!!!” to Amoud Foundation and Amoud
University and specially its medical team, who today produce the best home grown
doctors and medical personnel in the African continent.
Suleiman Walhad (Ph.D), Hasan Ali Osman, Abdisalam Nur and Idris Saad
The Founding Fathers of Amoud University
