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This is a tale of David and Goliath proportions, how an American hedge fund manager created a unique university in Somaliland whose students, against all possibilities, have come to achieve success beyond anyone's wildest dreams. Jonathan Starr is not your traditional do-gooder, and in 2009 2009, when he made a decision to found Abaarso, a second university in Somaliland, the choice looked crazy to even his closest friends. Why, they considered, would he turn down a life of comparative luxury to relocate to an armed ingredient in a breakaway region of the world's number 1 failed state? To accomplish his quest, Starr would need to overcome profound ethnic differences, broken promises, and dangers to his security and this of his staff. It Takes a Institution is the storyline of how an abstract eye-sight became a transformative truth, as Starr attempt to build a university in a location forgotten by the globe. It's the story of the skeptical and clan-based culture learning to give way to trust. And it is the storyline of the students themselves, including a youngster from a family group of nomads who became popular by himself in search of an education and a woman who waged a being hungry strike to be able to convince her rigorous parents to send her to Abaarso. Abaarso has positioned 40 graduates and counting in American colleges, from Harvard to MIT, and directs Somaliland a communication: its children can contend with anyone on the globe. Now the initial question Starr was asked needs another: "If such a success can happen within an unrecognized breakaway region of Somalia, did it not happen anywhere?"
