86:(June 15, 1983) is a Kenyan humanitarian and community conservation strategist. She is the founder of Safari Doctors, an organization that delivers primary medical care and health education by boat, air, and land to Bajuni and Aweer communities in Lamu, Kenya. In 2016, Umra Omar was named a Top 10 CNN Hero, and in 2017, she was named the UN in Kenya Person of the Year along with the rest of the Safari Doctors team.
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She was a participant various global and national conferences and workshops on behalf of OSIEA including CREA's Global
Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute in 2011, an international, feminist, human rights organization which promotes and advances women's human rights and sexual rights of all people
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In 2016, Safari
Doctors conducted its very first medical sail. Currently, Safari Doctors reaches hundreds of patients a month, primarily women and children, and runs a Youth Health Ambassador program that aims to facilitate youth leadership. Because of the organization's work, Umra Omar was named a
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In 2010, Umra moved back to
Nairobi to work with the Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa (OSIEA) for a few years before going back to the US. At OSIEA, she worked as the health and rights program assistant with where she was an editor and writer on various topics on health and social rights
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In 2014, Umra went vacation to visit her family in Lamu, Kenya. She was introduced to a French mobile medical project that had become defunct when Al-Shabaab increased their attacks in Lamu County, and along with the nurse, Harrison Kalu, revived what would later become Safari
Doctors.
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including sexual equality, arts and culture, harm reduction services for sex workers and drug users, gender and sexual rights including of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) vulnerable communities, social justice, among many others.
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by strengthening feminist leadership, organizations and movements. She also participated in the 2nd Harm reduction conference in
Mauritius where she presented on empowering female drug users and sex workers in Malindi, Kenya.
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Umra Omar is married and has two young children. In 2016 Umra founded a small private pre-school to serve families who live on the island.
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Top 10 CNN Hero 2016. The following year, she was named the UN in Kenya Person of the Year.
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