I have tens of other examples I’ll share in the blog.
I’m not naive enough to not realise money facilitated lots of this.. but it takes more than that… it takes the foolishness of hope to the n’th degree and faith in the good left inside us all & the anger to roar in the face of violation of rights.

Shoutout to those who worked with me on the case of the girl who was refused emergency care for 3rd degree burns on 90% of her body & wouldn’t be seen without ID. We campaigned till the law was changed (only a small change to 1st 48 hours, but still!)

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Shoutout to those I worked with on changing the law so that doctors & nurses could report abuse and not just attempted murder

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Shoutout to the doctors & friend who worked with Omer (the boy who burnt 90% of his hand so badly every hospital wanted to amputate it becoz how could a street boy pay for reconstruction & we managed over the year to give him back his fingers! Pro bono!

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Shoutout to A.A who drove up & down Egypt across districts & cities & towns to find medical equipment and meds for the “lost cause” baby I fought so hard 2 get a shunt done when no 1 wanted to give him a chance at life. We lost this one but gained a team of medics & friends

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Thank you to A.B who on reading the blog about the girl sexually abused by her step father & the mum having to split her girls over a number of shelters & live on the street, set her up with a 20 year rent contract & a full kiosk to start earning her own money

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Shout out to Sally Toma, well known Egyptian psychiatrist who offered her time, therapy dogs and clinic pro bono to help one of our girls, 3 yr old, pulled out of a rubbish dump, so abused and stunned she would not talk.

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Shoutout to Mahienour - the human rights lawyer that had just come out of prison at midnight for protesting, & 6am accompanying a 3 year old street girl to have brain surgery after abuse so her abusive father couldn’t forcibly take her bcoz I was in London by then.

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Shoutout to the wonderful Julia who had no money to give but came to the shelter every Monday to do the girls hair and train them to do it so they had a skill to earn their own money from

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Shoutout to the (still) anonymous friend who when reading the blog about baby Nada who died because her street kid mum couldn’t afford the ambulance w/the oxygen tank, made it her life’s work to provide an incubator at the university hospital dedicated 2 street kids babies

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Shoutout out 2 the farm owner who read over 100 of my desperate status pleas trying to find temporary shelter for two 17 year old street girls who were turned away from all institutions 4 bureaucratic reasons & welcomed her them in her home - 8yrs later they’re still there!

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Shoutout to the reconstructive surgeon who worked with the stars who, when I refused his monetary donation, opened up the surgery to offer his skills to remove the girls rape scars, to heal the cigarette butt burns and reconstruct burnt fingers - for free

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