Draft:Sara Rashid
 | Draft article not currently submitted for review.
This is a draft Articles for creation (AfC) submission. It is not currently pending review. While there are no deadlines, abandoned drafts may be deleted after six months. To edit the draft click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window. To be accepted, a draft should:
It is strongly discouraged to write about yourself, your business or employer. If you do so, you must declare it. Where to get help
How to improve a draft
You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article. Improving your odds of a speedy review To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags. Editor resources
Last edited by Wikishovel (talk | contribs) 11 days ago. (Update) |
 | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
Sara Rashid | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | March 27, 1987 Surrey, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | Iraqi |
| Occupation(s) | Humanitarian, Global Health Professional |
| Title | President of Kurdistan Save the Children |
| Term | Since September 2023 |
| Spouse | Zhino Qadir |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Abdul Latif Rashid (father) Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed (mother) |
| Relatives | Hero Ibrahim Ahmed (aunt) Ibrahim Ahmad (grandfather) |
Sara Rashid (born 27 March 1987) is a global health and post-conflict professional who has been President of the Kurdistan Save the Children (KSC) since September 2023.
She is the daughter of Iraq’s President Abdul Latif Rashid and First Lady Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed. She is a granddaughter of the Kurdish judge, writer, and politician Ibrahim Ahmad, and a niece of former First Lady of Iraq Hero Ibrahim Ahmed.
Sara Rashid oversees projects ensuring protection, health, and education to children caught in the midst of both new and protracted crises across Iraq and the Kurdistan Region.
Early life and education
[edit]She was born on 27 March 1987 in Surrey, United Kingdom. She attended Old Palace School of John Whitgift in Croydon, England. Sara holds a Master's degree from University College London after researching mortality estimates in the 2003 Iraq war and their implications on policy. She holds an undergraduate degree from King's College London.
Career
[edit]Sara joined Kurdistan Save the Children (KSC) in 2014 as a senior officer responsible for the planning, implementation, and review of the organization’s emergency response for IDPs and refugees, and partnerships with local and international actors. She co-led the child protection cluster for coordinating the refugee and IDP response, with a focus on child labor and child marriage. She led the child labor taskforce, which initiated the creation of a legitimized child protection monitoring committee that is still in operation today.
Sara has spearheaded KSC’s launch of a STEM education initiative in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region. In partnership with World Learning and funded by the Catalyst Foundation for Universal Education, KSC extended the STEM program to Syrian children living in refugee camps in Iraq.
She has overseen the expansion of the scope of KSC’s activities to include a nation-wide “No to Drugs, Yes to Life” campaign and lobbies the government for a more holistic approach to the war on drug trafficking. She advocates for rehabilitation rather than incarceration. “Incarcerating drug users is often the most common reprimand in Iraq and Kurdistan, but we need to focus on establishing rehabilitation programs if we want to be successful in reintegrating drug addicts,” she has said.
Sara has also led the drive to provide out-of-country medical care for children in need of specialized treatment otherwise unavailable in Iraq.
Sara was appointed the country champion for cancer in 2019, receiving specialized training by the Union for International Cancer Control on leadership and advocacy to develop a national cancer control plan. Her efforts have crossed borders as she was a leading board member in the local emergency aid campaign delivery for earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria.
In 2015, Sara served on the Board of Directors of the SEED Foundation in the Kurdistan Region, Iraq.
She has contributed to research on global health diplomacy in Iraq for the “Medicine, Conflict and Survival Journal” (March 2014).
Personal life
[edit]In September 2017, Sara Rashid married Zhino Qadir, a lawyer, in Beirut, Lebanon. They have two children. She speaks English and Kurdish.
References
[edit]