Amanda Lindhout
Journalist and humanitarian
1981-06-12
Amanda Lindhout is a Canadian humanitarian and former journalist known for her memoir A House in the Sky.
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By concentrating on what I was grateful for, I was able to stave off despair.
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It was a lesson the world had already taught me and was teaching me still. You don't know what's possible until you actually see it.
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It was a lesson the world had already taught me and was teaching me still. You don't know what's possible until you actually see it.
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By concentrating on what I was grateful for, I was able to stave off despair.
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Hamdi Ulukaya and Chobani have made the decision to feed 250,000 victims of the Somali famine. Their compassion speaks for itself, and is a shining example of how the business community can have an enormous positive impact on the world.
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It was a slow understanding that the lack of education in a country like Somalia creates these huge social problems.
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Going into Somalia, I didn't anticipate how many people's lives would be affected by it. In hindsight, I certainly wish I had taken more time to think about that, but I can't change it.
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Somalia is very dangerous, and no one knows that better than I.
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Accompanied by an Australian photographer named Nigel Brennan, I'd gone to Somalia to work as a freelance journalist, on a trip that was meant to last only ten days.
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What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.
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A little goes a long way in Somalia: $5 will feed a person there for about two weeks.
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The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women's freedoms in southern Somalia - that type of mentality - that's what I had to deal with in captivity.
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Somalia is an important story in the world, and it needed to be told.
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My captors were definitely aware that what they were doing was wrong. It came out in small ways - occasionally through a show of guilt or compassion. One of the boys bought me a gift. Another used to sneak me acetaminophen tablets.
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I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.
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Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.
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Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.
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I made a vow to myself while I was a hostage that if I were lucky enough to live and to get out of Somalia, I would do something meaningful with my life - and specifically something that would be meaningful in the country where I'd lost my freedom.
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