In 2015 during a visit to a hospital caring for Yemeni refugees in Djibouti I met Farah Abdallah, a seven-year-old Yemeni refugee, who was shot in the head by a sniper in Aden. The bullet was lodged in her skull, she was at grave risk of dying. Farah was been offered financial assistance from a Yemeni benefactor to pay for her flights out of Djibouti for critical brain surgery but no country will could accept her without documents.

Later that day I had an interview with Djibouti's President Ismail Omar Guelleh. I printed out photos of Farah and took them. When the interview was done I made a discreet and personal plea to the President for her case. We found out a short while later that she had been helped with her documents by the Presidency and received the life saving operation that she needed.