Dr Nelly Ali

Sometimes start of term is a little overwhelming and then you get this and you remember how much you really love your job 🥹🥹❤️❤️ @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ioe.bsky.social

What a wonderful way to start the new term! ♥️♥️♥️ 👩🏻‍🎓 🎓🎓🎓
LOVVVEEE my students so much!
@sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ioe.bsky.social

URGENT CALL - Egypt-based OBGYNs & Psychologists specialists experienced in paediatric SGBV & psychologists to support a number of children in Egypt.

Most girls are between 1–17 years old & need:

- Medical checks (required for police reports)
- Psychological support after experiences of abuse

Lilly asked we support the wonderful charity Choose Love for her 10th Birthday... 🥰 please donate by clicking the link below

tinyurl.com/3mp7ykc6

Egypt Lawyer friends: I need ur help

I’ve been contacted about 2 girls: 4&12 yo - Indonesians

Mum was deported & left girls in Cairo..If I can’t find a way to protect them.. they will end up on the street & will be trafficked.

What are my options to help them at this point?

#help #Childrensafety

The Dust of Life: On Street Children and the Language of Othering There is a quiet power in language — a stealthy force that can humanise or erase, uplift or condemn, draw people in or cast them out. One of the most dangerous things we do, often without realising, i...

This blog explores the power of language, the danger of othering, and the possibility of naming with care.

Do read it. Share it. Reflect on the words we use — and what they say about us.

#StreetChildren #YouthStudies #ChildRights #SociologyOfChildhood #Othering #GlobalJustice

Licking Love Off Knives: When Survival Isn’t a Choice, but a Class Privilege One of the most powerful things about Laam Shamsiya is its fearless willingness to confront social issues that so many have been aching to speak about aloud. It feels as though the series has handed p...

💔 “When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives.” L Eden

This post is about abuse, love, class, and survival—and who gets the right to heal.

www.nellyali.com/post/licking...

#ChildProtection #Intersectionality #LaamShamsiya #SocialJustice #SurvivorStories

Well this is a sight that needs to be documented for history ….

The Egyptian government must immediately lift the arbitrary travel bans and asset freezes imposed upon three directors of EIPR, a prominent Egyptian human rights organization, solely for their legitimate human rights work www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Most Rural Hospitals Have Closed Their Maternity Wards, Study Finds (Gift Article) Labor and delivery units are losing money and struggling to find staff, in rural areas and large cities alike.

In the US women’s healthcare continues to come under attack, over 500 hospitals have closed their labor and delivery departments since 2010, leaving most rural hospitals and more than a third of urban hospitals without obstetric care, according to a new study. #opdeatheaters 🧵

Massive database of evidence, compiled by a historian, details Israel's war crimes in Gaza ***

Hard reading.. even harder truths. 😔

The report Dr. Lee Mordechai has compiled online constitutes the most methodical and detailed documentation in Hebrew (there is also an English translation) of the war crimes Israel is perpetrating in Gaza

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

It’s fantastic that the @eurochild-org.bsky.social report “Children’s Realities in Europe: Progress & Gaps” has gained recognition among EU decision-makers! The focus must now shift to ensuring tangible actions are taken to address the lived experiences of children. eurochild.org/resource/chi...

I have tens of other examples I’ll share in the blog.
I’m not naive enough to not realise money facilitated lots of this.. but it takes more than that… it takes the foolishness of hope to the n’th degree and faith in the good left inside us all & the anger to roar in the face of violation of rights.

Shoutout to those who worked with me on the case of the girl who was refused emergency care for 3rd degree burns on 90% of her body & wouldn’t be seen without ID. We campaigned till the law was changed (only a small change to 1st 48 hours, but still!)

#CreatingPocketsOfUtipia

Shoutout to those I worked with on changing the law so that doctors & nurses could report abuse and not just attempted murder

#CreatingPocketsOfUtipia

Shoutout to the doctors & friend who worked with Omer (the boy who burnt 90% of his hand so badly every hospital wanted to amputate it becoz how could a street boy pay for reconstruction & we managed over the year to give him back his fingers! Pro bono!

#CreatingPocketsOfUtipia

Shoutout to A.A who drove up & down Egypt across districts & cities & towns to find medical equipment and meds for the “lost cause” baby I fought so hard 2 get a shunt done when no 1 wanted to give him a chance at life. We lost this one but gained a team of medics & friends

#CreatingPocketsOfUtipia

Thank you to A.B who on reading the blog about the girl sexually abused by her step father & the mum having to split her girls over a number of shelters & live on the street, set her up with a 20 year rent contract & a full kiosk to start earning her own money

#CreatingPocketsOfUtipia

Shout out to Sally Toma, well known Egyptian psychiatrist who offered her time, therapy dogs and clinic pro bono to help one of our girls, 3 yr old, pulled out of a rubbish dump, so abused and stunned she would not talk.

#CreatingPocketsOfUtipia

Shoutout to Mahienour - the human rights lawyer that had just come out of prison at midnight for protesting, & 6am accompanying a 3 year old street girl to have brain surgery after abuse so her abusive father couldn’t forcibly take her bcoz I was in London by then.

#CreatingPocketsOfUtipia

Shoutout to the wonderful Julia who had no money to give but came to the shelter every Monday to do the girls hair and train them to do it so they had a skill to earn their own money from

#CreatingPocketsOfUtipia

Shoutout to the (still) anonymous friend who when reading the blog about baby Nada who died because her street kid mum couldn’t afford the ambulance w/the oxygen tank, made it her life’s work to provide an incubator at the university hospital dedicated 2 street kids babies

#CreatingPocketsOfUtipia

Shoutout out 2 the farm owner who read over 100 of my desperate status pleas trying to find temporary shelter for two 17 year old street girls who were turned away from all institutions 4 bureaucratic reasons & welcomed her them in her home - 8yrs later they’re still there!

#CreatingPocketsOfUtipia

Shoutout to the reconstructive surgeon who worked with the stars who, when I refused his monetary donation, opened up the surgery to offer his skills to remove the girls rape scars, to heal the cigarette butt burns and reconstruct burnt fingers - for free

#creatingPocketsOfUtopia

Shoutout 2 the teenage kids in the USA who on reading the blog about the teens in the shelters stealing their own kids nappies 2 use as period pads, volunteered their labour over 1 summer & made sanitary care packs with their earnings & shipped them to the shelter in Cairo

#creatingPocketsOfUtopia

1 of the things I’ve advocated 4 was that money isn’t the solution, creating alternative communities was

Shoutout to the Irish Rugby Club in Cairo who wanted to offer the shelter a monetary donation but let me negotiate access on the day of the week they were closed to take in&train the street kids

“Those who say things cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it”

I can’t tell you how many times I was saved remembering this and how much change I have been honoured enough to be part of because I didn’t listen to all the “whys” something wouldn’t work.

#CreatingPocketsOfUtipia

Two-child benefit cap ‘will be scrapped’ in Scotland, vows SNP Scotland’s finance secretary, Shona Robison, reveals plans in budget to end ‘pernicious’ policy The Scottish government has unveiled plans to scrap Westminster’s controversial two-child benefit cap to lift thousands of “children out of poverty”.…

Two-child benefit cap ‘will be scrapped’ in Scotland, vows SNP

I got to wear my silly hat!! I mean the PhD hat 😂

Graduation Ceremony day… and it finally feels official!