Kate Kendel is born in Sierra Leone. At the age of 8, she had a heart surgery at the ADRA University Hospital in Loma Linda, California. After the surgery, she lived with Danish-Norwegian forster parents in Scandinavia and in Sierra Leone. At the age of 16, she returned to her biological father. Shortly after she was genitally mutilated.

Some years later, by the help of her former forster parents, she was given a scolarship and came to Denmark. Kate Kendel has a formal education as a social worker and has lived in Denmark since 1978.

In 2006 she was given The Human Rights Award by Amnesty International & Salaam DK for the film “The Secret Pain”.

PHONE (+45) 5260 1221 / (+45) 4127 2157
katekendel@get2net.dk