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About Solome
Solome Mealin was born in Uganda and was diagnosed with Sickle Cell Disorder when she was 4 years old.
Solome went to girls boarding schools in Uganda and joined Leeds Beckett University for her BSc (Hons) Health Sciences, MSC Public Health /Health Promotion.
She is now a PhD student in Nutrition and dietetics, looking at African Migrant women and their psychological well-being in the UK.
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Sharing her journey
Solome Mealin is a co-author of a book titled ‘The many faces and lives of Sickle Cell, a global collaboration’, which is available on Amazon. She writes poems about her experiences with Sickle Cell Disorder. In these writings, she talks with the disease, which she named ‘Frenemy’, to try and air out her feeling about what the disease has done to her.
Want to dive deeper into Solome’s story? Read her personal letter here.
Together for a better future
This is one of the children in Uganda that Solome has been supporting to access food. The child’s bed is just a pile of clothes, without a mosquito net for protection.
Solome’s goal is to provide them with mattresses, blankets, and mosquito nets. She once cared for 20 children, but sadly, two were lost last year due to a lack of treatment for Sickle Cell Disorder.