Madeeha Hasan Odhaib is a diminutive, 37-year-old seamstress whom some people have begun calling the Mother Teresa of Baghdad. Since 2003, she has been working tirelessly to assist thousands of Iraqis driven from their homes by the war, especially in her Karada district where some 30,000 displaced Iraqis live. With almost no help from occupying forces or the Iraqi government, she has put together one of the few effective aid operations in Baghdad.
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
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