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Outspoken Somali Teacher Leleti Needed Political Asylum, and I Helped Her Get It


Image of happy Somali family granted political asylum

Leleti was educated in the US, and had returned to her home in Somalia to help raise the hopes and skills of impoverished women in her country. But her knowledge of science and world affairs soon put her and her family in danger, and they decided to flee her homeland.

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