Ann Mary Burgess

Ann Mary Burgess (1861-1943) ta kasance mai ba da agaji na Quaker na Ingila wanda ya gudanar da aikin jin kai tsakanin Armeniyawa masu bukata sama da shekaru hamsin. A karkashin jagorancin ta, asibitin Ofishin Jakadancin Abokai a Constantinople ya zama 'kamaroni mai yawa',  inda aka tallafa wa aikin ilimi ta hanyar kudaden da aka tara daga kasashen waje ta hanyar sayar da kayan sana'a, wanda aka samar a kan sikelin masana'antu.

 Rayuwa ta farko 
An haifi Ann Mary Burgess a Upwell, Norfolk, a cikin 1861, ta biyu cikin 'ya'ya mata huɗu na William Burgess da Mahala née Seaton . Bayan yarlhood da ta fi zama a Yorkshire, a shekara ta 1881 ta koma Gabashin Anglia Ruwa ta kasance baiwa  a gidan Alexander Peckover, mai arziki Quaker bank a Wisbech, Cambs . A nan ne ta fara jin kiran don taimakawa matalauta a kasashen waje.

 Ayyukan mishan a Constantinople 
Kodayake da farko yana neman yin aiki tare da mata a cikin zenanas na Indiya, Burgess, a yanzu sakatare ne ga mai ba da agaji Priscilla Peckover, an rinjaye shi ya yi la'akari da matsayi tare da Asibitin Ofishin Jakadancin Abokai a Constantinople, inda abokan ciniki suka fito da farko daga al'ummar Armeniya. Bayan ɗan gajeren horo a matsayin ma'aikaciyar jinya a Banbury, Oxfordshire, Burgess ya tafi Turkiyya a 1888, kuma nan da nan ya kasance mai aiki. A sakamakon girgizar kasa ta 1894, an kara karin gadaje don kula da yawan gwauraye da marayu, amma asibitin ya rufe a 1896 lokacin da likitansa, shi ma Armeniya, ya gudu zuwa Ingila saboda tsoron rayuwarsa.

Duk da rufe asibitin, buƙatar taimakon wahala ta kasance mai ƙarfi, kuma ana buƙatar kuɗi. Burgess ta fara haɓaka cibiyar sadarwa tare da ƙungiyoyi masu kyau ciki har da ƙungiyoyin Quaker da Temperance, suna ba ta tushe na kasuwanci don abin da ta kira aikin 'masana'antu' ga mata da marayu a cikin kulawarta, waɗanda aka ba su aiki mai ma'ana wanda hakan ya tara kudaden da ake buƙata don ci gaba da aikin. Mata da farko sun juya hannayensu zuwa zane-zane, zane-zane da kayan ado na gabas. Daga baya, an gabatar da yin katako. An fadada wuraren aikin sosai, kuma an sayar da kayayyakin bita ga Burtaniya, Amurka, da Jamus, tare da samun kasuwa a Constantinople kanta. A farkon shekarun 1900, akwai ma'aikatan mata sama da 400, kuma jujjuyawar shekara-shekara ta kai £ 80,000. An kara kayan wasa a cikin kewayon, kuma daga 1904, kayan kwalliya. Ayyuka sun kasance da ƙuntatawa sosai a lokacin yakin 1914-18 (an kwace gine-ginen makarantar don amfani da su a matsayin bariki), amma Burgess ya sami hanyoyin ci gaba da jigilar kayayyaki zuwa Burtaniya.[1]

 Shekaru na baya 
Zuwa ƙarshen rayuwarta, Burgess ta sami damar fahimtar burinta na farko na yin aiki a Indiya, ta ɗauki matsayi a asibitin mishan na Amurka, asibitin tunawa da Ellen T Cowen a Kolar, Kudancin Indiya. Ta mutu a can a ranar 31 ga Disamba 1943, tana da shekaru 82. 

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