Magda Iskander is a
social entrepreneur in
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...
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Raised in a village in Egypt, she wanted to study music as a child. She found herself on the path of medicine instead, and was intrigued by radiology, which she studied in the
United States
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. In 1984, she discovered that ultrasound was not available in Egypt, and began establishing training centers in
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...
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She is the founder of
Care with Love, an organization that trains recruits to provide quality health care and assistance for the elderly and other homebound.
She was elected an
Ashoka: Innovators for the Public Fellow in 2003.
Ashoka Fellows
Notes
External links
Social Innovation Conversations, June 6, 2008
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Living people
Ashoka Egypt Fellows
Year of birth missing (living people)