Awadeya Mahmoud sits at a cooperative for Sudanese women selling tea on April 17, 2016, in Khartoums Souq Shaabi area.Through 20 years selling tea by searing-hot Khartoum roadsides, Awadeya dreamed of improving conditions for her co-workers, mostly from conflict-hit areas like herself, but never imagined it would lead to the White House. But for struggling to better conditions for impoverished women selling tea and food from stalls across Khartoum, Awadeya received a Woman of Courage Award from John Kerry in Washington last month. / AFP PHOTO / Tom LITTLE / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY TOM LITTLE
KHARTOUM: Through 20 years’ selling tea by searing-hot Khartoum roadsides, Awadeya Mahmoud (pic) dreamed of improving conditions for her co-workers, mostly from conflict-hit areas like herself, but never imagined it would lead to the White House.
But for struggling to improve conditions for impoverished women selling tea and food from stalls across the Sudanese capital, Mahmoud received a “Woman of Courage Award” from US Secretary of State John Kerry in Washington last month.
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