Girls and Cars

Girls and Cars

Nasra Hussain Ibrahim Our Perfect Brown Girl of the DAY

At just 18 years old, Nasra is Somalia’s first and only female car mechanic. In a country where most women are relegated to service jobs and doing anything outside the norm as a woman can be dangerous, that's quite a feat. She became a mechanic after spending days hanging around an auto shop, trying to persuade the mechanics there to teach her the trade. “Anything a man can do, a woman can do," Nasra says.

 

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