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Project Development

April 2006: Vattenfall Europe provides an additional 60,000 € for the maternity clinic in Bosaaso. Jawahir Cumar and Johannes Altmeppenfly to Bosaaso via Dubai, where Lothar Prietz has purchased materials for the roof, which are then shipped to Bosaaso.

They also meet there with the mayor of Bosaaso, the President of Puntland and several of his ministers. The politicians reaffirm their commitment to the project. Upon visiting the building site they discover that all the walls are in place; the interior decorating has begun; a 45-meter deep well is being drilled and the roof material is on its way.

March 2006: The Board of Directors of the German Branch of the World Childhood Foundation, led by Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden, met on March 2, 2006 in Berlin. Jawahir Cumar and Johannes Altmeppen presented the maternity clinic project in Bosaaso.

February 2006: Our civil engineer Lothar Prietz travels to Bosaaso and begins his cooperation with the Somalian building site and project managers.

January 2006: Jawahir Cumar visits the building site in Bosaaso again and prepares the way for Lothar Prietz to commence his work.

December 2005: The SES (Senior Expert Service) located in Bonn is contacted to support the building site manager Ahmed Barre. They consult with a civil engineer from Berlin, Lothar Prietz, who has already worked on building projects in Africa, among others projects in Somaliland. Prietz makes a commitment to work in Bosaaso under the auspices of the SES and to provide his experience in the construction of the hospital.

November 2005: Jawahir Cumar, Johannes Altmeppen and Clemens Fischer (Vattenfall Europe) travel to Bosaaso to gather information on the development of the building site.

June 2005: The cornerstone for the maternity clinic is laid near the city of Bosaaso in Puntland, Somalia on June 9. Those in attendance are: Johannes Altmeppen, CCO of Vattenfall Europe, Omar Ali Hassan, Chairman of Dandor and the CEO of the Dahabshiil Bank, Jawahir Cumar, Chairwoman of the Stop Mutilation Association, who was accompanied by a reporter and a sound engineer from Germany, the building site manager Engineer Ahmed Barre, as well as local political representatives, the mayor, the labour minister and the governor of Puntland.

May 2005: The architect Sophie von der Wiede from the Soroptimist Club Düsseldorf-Karlstadt provides her experience and produces the building plans for a maternity clinic in Somalia.

April 2005: Jawahir Cumar is invited to visit Vattenfall Europe in Berlin to present her project. The company agrees to make a contribution of 125,000 € to support the construction of the maternity clinic and to act as a partner in the further development of the project.

March 2005: Jawahir Cumar, with a first blueprint produced by a Somalian civil engineer in hand, begins the search for sponsors. She receives support from professionals she knows, including a civil engineer, a technician and a computer specialist. With their help the blueprint is extended and drawn up.

February 2005: Dandor contacts the mayor of Bosaaso and convinces him that the new hospital needs to be built. Stop Mutilation is given property near the city to use for this purpose.

January 2005: After the hospital in Xaafun on the Hafun peninsula is destroyed by the tsunami in December 2004, it becomes clear that a new hospital must be built. The region around Bosaaso, where thousands of refugees of the civil war live and many more from the destroyed coastal regions join them daily, urgently needs a new maternity clinic. Dandor, the partner organisation of Stop Mutilation in Somalia, starts searching for property.