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Global Enrichment Foundation Executive Director Amanda Lindhout returns to Somalia for famine relief.
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 December 2011
Canadian Living
Canadian Celebrities Favourite Moments From 2011
Amanda Lindhout of the Global Enrichment Foundation shares her best moment from 2011 with Canada''s top selling magazine.
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 October 23, 2011
CTV Edmonton
Students answer call to empower women half a world away
A group of students raised tens of thousands of dollars over 8 months for the Global Enrichment Foundation, which will help six Somali women go to university.
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 October 20, 2011
Spruce Grove Examiner
Students Raise Funds For Lindhout's Foundation
Inspired by Lindhout's story, 15 students in Alberta have taken up her cause- supporting female education in Somalia.
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 September 20, 2011
The Leader Post
Lindhout Wants to Help Somalia
In Regina, Lindhout spoke about education and the devastating famine in Somalia. "When you've see what starvation looks like, I don't think it's something you can ever forget, " she said.
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 September 1, 2011
Breakfast Television
Food Convoy In Somalia
Live from the Somali border Amanda Lindhout speaks to Ryan Jesperson about the need for food aid to get into the Somali refugee camps.
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August 21, 2011
CTV Edmonton
Albertans Working to Relieve Crisis in Somalia
The Convoy For Hope program is feeding thousands in Somalia. GEF founder Amanda Lindhout spoke to thousands in Red Deer about how they can help.
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 August 18, 2011
Rocky Mountain Outlook
Amanda Lindhout Named Citizen of the Year
For her efforts to bring education and food to the people of Somalia, Lindhout was honoured by the Canmore Rotary Club.
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CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta interviewed Amanda Lindhout at the Dadaab refugee camps about food aid and education in Somalia.
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 August 8, 2011
Anderson Cooper 360
Feeding Somalia's Hungry
CNN's Anderson Cooper talks to humanitarian Amanda Lindhout about the ongoing crisis in Somalia.
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 August 5, 2011
The Today Show
Convoy For Hope
Amanda Lindhout of the Global Enrichment Foundation returns to Somalia to help fight the devastating famine plaguing the African nation, despite having previously been held prisoner in the country for 460 agonizing days. NBC’s Kate Snow reports.
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ITV News out of London interviews the Global Enrichment Foundation's Amanda Lindhout about the international community's response to the famine and why she is organizing her own food convoy.
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Amanda Lindhout talks to RCI International host Ita Kendall about the famine affecting East Africa.
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Amanda Lindhout is now inside the Dadaab Refugee Camp, the world's largest, in hopes of building schools and setting up an education system through her Global Enrichment Foundation.
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Global Enrichment Foundation's Executive Director Amanda Lindhout is in Kenya and describes the stories of the Somali refugees who have fled the famine.
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 July 12, 2011
Somalia
CBC The Homestretch
Violence, poverty, a swollen refugee camp, and the worst drought in 60 years- Frank Rackow speaks with Amanda Lindhout the Founder and executive director of The Global Enrichment Foundation on the border of Kenya from the Dadaab refugee camp.
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A phys-ed teacher in Alberta joins forces with the Global Enrichment Foundation to sponsor a high school girls basketball team in Abaarso, Somalia.
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A year and a half after being released from captivity in Somalia, a former journalist tells Canada AM about her work helping Somali women through her Global Enrichment Foundation.
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The Link's Ottawa correspondent, Valerie Morand, was on hand this week as Lindhout visited the national capital to talk about her experience and to explain the work her Foundation is now doing to advance the education of Somali women and girls.
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In Ottawa to speak at an event hosted by the United Nations Association in Canada, Amanda Lindhout stopped by the CBC studio to speak about going back to Africa with the foundation she created to help the Somali people.
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Amanda Lindhout, waxay VOA u sheegtay inay taageero weyn u heshay mashruuceedan ay u bixisay barnaamijka deeqda waxbarasho ee haweenka Soomaaliyeed.
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A gym teacher from Stony Plain, Alberta is taking action to support female basketball players in Somalia with the help of The Global Enrichment Foundation.
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Two Stony Plain teachers have raised enough money to sponsor a women's basketball team in Somalia as part of the Global Enrichment Foundation.
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"I really feel that the messages of forgiveness and compassion are essential", Lindhout told a sold out crowd on Wednesday. "If we could cultivate that in ourselves, the whole world could be a different place."
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Founder and director of the Global Enrichment Foundation, Lindhout spoke at The 8th Annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast about the need for compassion, the triumph of personal transformation and the process of forgiveness.
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Amanda Lindhout, founder of the Global Enrichment Foundation, spoke to Breakfast Television about the power of female leadership and the inspiration behind her work for The Somali Women's Scholarship Program which provides university education to extraordinary women in Somalia.
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Karen Soloman talks to Amanda Lindhout at Carleton University about The Global Enrichment Foundation.
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Amanda Lindhout is passionate about the power of forgiveness and the ability of individuals to change their world - two messages she brings with her when she speaks Saturday at the Yes, You Can! conference, a leadership gathering for students at Carleton University.
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Amanda Lindhout was drawn to Somalia as a freelance journalist. Just three days into her stay, she was kidnapped at gun point. And after 15 months in captivity in that country she remains connected to its people. In conversation with Marc Montgomery, she talks about the process of forgiveness. She also discusses her foundation's role in Somalia's future, and why she insists, the country is not a failed state.
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Eleven young Somali women, who did not have the means to go to university and who all want to use their education to help their troubled country, are on track to undergraduate degrees and attending classes this semester thanks to the efforts of a Canadian woman who had been brutally held captive in their country.
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Speaking to 400 people as the Red Deer College's Perspectives: Canada in the World Series, Amanda Lindhout opened up about her hope for the war-torn nation of Somalia.
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Amanda Lindhout knows plenty about the power of forgiveness.
The former Central Alberta journalist who was held captive in Somalia for 15 months and released late last year, is speaking this evening at the College Arts Centre as part of the ‘Perspectives: Canada in the World Series’.
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 October, 2010
Cry Freedom
Elle Canada magazine
Sumiya Musse, a Toronto- born woman whose parents are from Somalia read one of the poems she wrote about her Somali sisters who have been left behind: “Blood is shed / The children remain unfed, yet nothing is being said, nothing is said. / They remain in fear, while we are here....” But Somali women and girls are being heard. They are finding support from the most unlikely of sisters: Amanda Lindhout.
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In this exclusive interview, Lindhout talks about her time spent in captivity and her new program that aims to make Somalia a better place.
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Lindhout's vision is to empower Somali women by educating them through a scholarship fund. She is raising money, one donation at a time, by talking to whoever will listen, including church and community groups, throughout Alberta and elsewhere.
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"Women are deemed second-class citizens," Lindhout said. "But, I know how brave women are, and I know how important they are, and that if given the tools, they could change the country."
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Amanda Lindhout, joined by Somali Canadian Abdul Salad of Red Deer, gave an update on Sunday of a scholarship program she launched in Red Deer last May, less than five months after being released from 15 months of being held hostage by a group of teenaged captors.
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Amanda Lindhout gave the keynote address to the Canmore Rotary Club during their Charter night on Monday at the Canmore Golf Club. Instead of speaking on the brutality that she suffered at the hands of teenage Somali boys for 462 days, she encouraged Rotarians to support her new Somali Women's Scholarship Program.
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AK: It’s been widely reported that your idea to create the Global Enrichment Foundation and the Somali Women’s Scholarship came to you during your captivity. Who is the scholarship for and what criteria do candidates need to meet?
AL: The Somali Women’s Scholarship Program was an idea I nurtured during a very dark time in captivity. Believing that I could do something to make Somalia a better country for those who live there gave me a goal to look forward to if I made it out alive.
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On Wednesday May 26, 2010, in an exclusive interview, CTV Edmonton reporter Bill Fortier talked with Lindhout about her plans to give back to the people of the war-torn country with the creation of the Global Enrichment Foundation designed to help provide Somali women with the right tools to live a better life.
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Speaking to her in person today, after following her story so closely for the past year and a half, is a bit surreal. Lindhout spent more than 15 months held by gunmen she describes as just 18 or 19 years old.
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Amanda Lindhout plans to devote her life to helping the people of Somalia, though she doubts she will ever return to the war-torn country where she was held against her will for more than a year.
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The idea was conceived in captivity. It blossomed in a series of windowless rooms and was forged by the torture, fear and shackles that bound Amanda Lindhout for 15 months in southern Somalia.
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The Canadian International Peace Project and the Canadian Somali Congress represented by Mark Persaud and Ahmed Hussen as well as Professor Hussein Warsame of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary were invited by Amanda Lindhout to launch the Somali Women's Scholarship Program in Red Deer, Alberta on Sunday, May 16th, 2010.
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Journalist-turned-humanitarian Amanda Lindhout spoke of finding inspiration during her darkest days in captivity as she launched her scholarship program for Somali women at a packed Red Deer church.
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An Alberta woman who was held hostage for more than 15 months in Somalia has started a foundation to send women in the war-torn country to university.
"Establishing this foundation is the first step towards making sense of what happened to me and using it to do something good in the world, " Amanda Lindhout said.
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