Helena Lopes da Silva

**Helena Lopes da Silva** (30 Janairu 1949 - 8 Satumba 2018) likita ce ta Cape Verde-Fotigal, mai fafutukar yaki da 'yan mulkin mallaka. Ita ce ta kafa kungiyar Left Bloc kuma bakar fata ta farko da ta shugabanci jerin zaɓuka a Portugal.

## Tarihin Rayuwa
An haife ta a Cape Verde ga ɗan ƙaramin ɗan bourgeois, Helena ta zauna a ƙasar har sai  da ta kammala karatun sakandare. A shekarar 1967, ta koma Portugal don halartar jami'a.  

### Aikin siyasa
Helena ta fara aikinta na siyasa lokacin da ta yi hijira zuwa Portugal. A Porto, ta shiga ƙungiyar ɗalibai kuma ta kasance kusa da ƙungiyar Trotskyist. Ta shiga cikin tarurruka inda aka tattauna gwagwarmayar 'yantar da 'yan  mulkin mallaka na Portugal, inda aka inganta ilimin siyasa da kuma inda aka tattauna dangantakar samar da kayayyaki, zamantakewa da zamantakewa. Ta fara samun horo a gwagwarmayar 'yantar da ƙasa ta Cape Verde. Bayan shekaru biyu a Porto, ta ƙaura zuwa Lisbon don samun kusanci da abokan aikinta na Cape Verde. Lokacin da ta isa babban birnin ƙasar Portugal, ta shiga jam'iyyar Afirka don 'yancin cin gashin kai na Guinea da Cape Verde (PAIGC), wata kungiya ta sirri a ƙarƙashin Estado Novo. 

Helena kuma ta kasance memba na Ƙungiyar Kwaminisanci ta Duniya da magajinta, Jam'iyyar Socialist Revolutionary. A cikin duka, Helena ta ci gaba da yin yaƙi don dalilai na mata. Mai fafutukar kare hakkin mata da hakkin son son rai ƙarshe na ciki, ta ɗauki ɓangare a cikin halittar National Campaign na zubar da ciki da kuma hana ɗaukar ciki (CNAC), da 'kasancewar mace' kungiyar, da Movement for a Ee to Decriminalizing zubar da ciki da kuma Doctors for Choice movement. 

A zaɓen Majalisar Tarayyar Turai na 1994, Helena ta jagoranci takarar jam'iyyar PSR, inda ta zama bakar fata ta farko shugabar jerin zaɓuka a zaɓukan Portugal. Kamfen nata ya kawo hangen nesa ga batutuwan wariyar launin fata da kyamar baki a Portugal da Turai. A cikin shekarar 1999, ta kasance ɗaya daga cikin waɗanda suka kafa Ƙungiyar Hagu,   a cikin mutane 248 da suka sanya hannu kan sanarwar kafa jam'iyyar.  Helena kuma memba ce ta Majalisar Dokokin Jihar Cape Verde,   bayan ta shiga bisa gayyatar Shugaba Jorge Carlos Fonseca.  A cikin shekarar 2015, an karrama ta da Digiri na biyu na odar Amílcar Cabral ta Shugaban Jamhuriyar Cape Verde. 

### Aikin likita
Tare da aikinta na siyasa, Helena ta kammala karatun likitanci a cikin shekarar 1974-75 daga Faculty of Medicine na Jami'ar Lisbon kuma ta yi aikin tiyata na gaba ɗaya daga shekarun 1981 zuwa 1987.  Ta ci gaba da samun digiri na biyu a fannin kula da lafiya daga Makarantar Kiwon Lafiyar Jama'a ta ƙasa a Jami'ar NOVA Lisbon. Tsakanin shekarun 1982 zuwa 1983, bisa gayyatar Hukumar Calouste Gulbenkian School of Nursing, ta koyar da ilimin likitanci-Surgical Pathology kuma ta kasance mataimakiyar farfesa na tiyata a Faculty of Medicine na Jami'ar Lisbon tsakanin shekarun 1981 da 2016. Ta kasance mataimakiyar Digiri a fannin tiyata a Asibitin de Santa Maria (1998 – 2016) kuma ta jagoranci Tawagar Marasa lafiya ta Surgery 1 na tsawon shekaru 20. 

A matsayinta na malama a tsangayar koyar da aikin likitanci ta Jami'ar Lisbon, Helena ta haɗa wani kwas na musamman kan ɗinkin da ɗalibai suka shirya, 'AEFMUL Sutures Workshop', wanda ta ci gaba da haɗawa bisa tsarin bono ko da bayan ta yi ritaya.  Ta kasance memba a kwalejin tiyata ta kwashe ta hanyar kungiyar kwallon kafa ta Portugal daga shekarun 1993   kuma suna aiki a cikin haɗuwa ta Cape Verdean da tsarin kiwon lafiya na ƙasar.  Ta kasance mamba a kungiyar likitoci ta AEFMUL.

Helena Lopes da Silva ta mutu a ranar 8 ga watan Satumba, 2018, tana da shekaru 69. 

## Manazarta