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Kenyan among CNN Hero of the Year finalists
A screen grab of Umra Omar, a Kenyan woman who was among the CNN Hero of the year awards, from a video on CNN website.
What you need to know:
- In her short speech after receiving her award, Ms Omar encouraged unity. “If you want to go fast go alone, to go far we must go together despite colour, gender, beliefs or social-status, we all bleed red.
- She founded Safari Doctors, a group that travels by boat, road and air to offer free medical services to more than 1,000 people every year in remote and insecure areas near the Somali border.
A woman from Lamu County was among the 10 finalists in the CNN Hero of the Year awards held on Sunday night in New York.
Ms Umra Omar, 33 made to the finalists but did not win the award, which was taken home by Jeison Aristizábal of Columbia.
