Building The Impossible - Shekhia, Zebiba
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The Mothers knew what they needed: a high school for our girls. It's an impossible request, for these mothers barely subsist in the Eritrean refugee camps in the Eastern Sudan. It is a hostile, barren environment, devoid of water, food, even basic sanitation. Zebiba Shekhia and the Eritrean people had endured so much up to this point: the brutality and genocide perpetrated on Eritrea by Haile Selassie and then the notorious dictator, Mengistu; the hardship of fleeing her own country under cover of night as the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea raged overhead. She made it to America, but would…mehr

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The Mothers knew what they needed: a high school for our girls. It's an impossible request, for these mothers barely subsist in the Eritrean refugee camps in the Eastern Sudan. It is a hostile, barren environment, devoid of water, food, even basic sanitation. Zebiba Shekhia and the Eritrean people had endured so much up to this point: the brutality and genocide perpetrated on Eritrea by Haile Selassie and then the notorious dictator, Mengistu; the hardship of fleeing her own country under cover of night as the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea raged overhead. She made it to America, but would the same determination to find a better life hold her through her darkest moments? Would she be able to keep her promise and find a way to get that high school for girls built? Be inspired by Zebiba's tenacity as she found a way to help the mothers and daughters of her homeland find a better life through education.
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Zebiba Shekhia fled Eritrea in 1978 to escape the atrocities being committed by the Ethiopian totalitarian dictator, Mengistu. Travelling through the Sudan, Middle East, Europe, and landing, finally, in America, Zebiba always vowed to find a way to go back and help thewomen and children left behind.She spent years trying to work with the Eritrean government in the areas of education and micro financing; however, the government denied her requests to help at every turn. Finally Saleh Meky, the Eritrean Minister of Health (her brother), told her, You have tried your very best, but if you continue, you're going to get in a lot of trouble, and there will be no way for me to help you. Go to the Eritrean refugee camp in Eastern Sudan. Help them. Don't come back here.In 2006, Zebiba founded Healing Bridges, an organization dedicated to helping Eritrean children get the education they need - and deserve. Healing Bridges helped various schools in Kassala, Sudan, and with ARAHA (the American Relief Agency for the Horn of Africa), built a high school for girls in the refugee camps in Shegerab, Sudan, at the request of the mothers. It was the first high school for girls to ever be built in the refugee camps.Zebiba continues to help in the refugee camps. She lives in Los Angeles. Please visit www.BuildingtheImpossible.com.