Al Jazeera Net: Abdel Alahdal, the uncle who put most of his salary into the Nada Foundation
Originally published by Al Jazeera Net on 7 January 2019.
When Al Jazeera Net told Nada Al-Ahdal’s story in January 2019, a second figure ran through it: her uncle, Abdel Alahdal, who each summer used to take girls of the family to Sana’a to study English and computing (Al Jazeera Net, 7 January 2019 · archived copy).
The article recounts that he broke off his work and returned to Sana’a after she fled, and that she was handed to him at her own request. When she was later kept in a girls’ care home on the grounds that he was unmarried, he married so that officials would be satisfied she had a safe place to live (Al Jazeera Net, 7 January 2019 · archived copy).
It also records what stood behind the Nada Foundation: about 80 per cent of his salary, together with the proceeds of her book. In 2015, it adds, the two were abducted by Al-Qaeda and held for fourteen days (Al Jazeera Net, 7 January 2019 · archived copy).
