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Sara Rashid (born 27 March 1987) is a health and post-conflict activist. She is the President of
Kurdistan Save the Children Kurdistan Save the Children (KSC) is a non-profit organization founded in 1991 in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Its mission is to support children in Iraq of all backgrounds by addressing their healthcare, social, economic, and educational needs. ...
(KSC) and has led projects that provide protection, healthcare, and education to children affected by war in Iraq and the
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.


Early life and education

Sara Rashid was born on 27 March 1987 in
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, United Kingdom. She is the daughter of Iraq's President
Abdul Latif Rashid Abdul Latif Rashid (; born 10 August 1944), also known as Letif Reshid (), is an Iraqi politician serving as the ninth president of Iraq. He was previously the Ministry of Water Resources (Iraq), Minister of Water Resources under the Government o ...
and First Lady
Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed () (born 1954) is an Iraqi-Kurdish politician and current First Lady of Iraq. Her husband is President Abdul Latif Rashid. She is a daughter of the Kurdish judge, writer, and politician Ibrahim Ahmed, and novelist Galawezh S ...
, the granddaughter of the
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judge, writer, and politician
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, and the niece of former first lady of Iraq
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. She attended Old Palace School of John Whitgift in Croydon, England. Sara holds a master's degree from
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in Global Health & Development after researching mortality estimates in the 2003 Iraq war and their implications on policy. She has an undergraduate degree from
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.


Career

In 2014, Sara Rashid joined Kurdistan Save the Children (KSC) as a senior officer responsible for planning, implementing, and reviewing 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 Child labour is the exploitation of children through any form of work that interferes with their ability to attend regular school, or is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful. Such exploitation is prohibited by legislation w ...
task force, which initiated the creation of a legitimized child protection monitoring committee that is still in operation today. In March 2014, Sara Rashid contributed to research on global health diplomacy in Iraq, published in the '' Medicine, Conflict and Survival'' journal. In 2015, Sara served on the board of directors of the SEED Foundation in the Kurdistan Region, Iraq. Sara Rashid led the launch of the Kurdistan Save the Children's (KSC) STEM education initiative in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region. In partnership with
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and funded by the Catalyst Foundation for Universal Education, the program was also extended to Syrian children in refugee camps in Iraq. Since 2019, Sara also led the drive to provide medical care for children in need of specialized treatment otherwise unavailable in Iraq. In 2019, Sara Rashid was appointed as the country champion for cancer and received specialized training from the
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on leadership and advocacy to help develop a national cancer control plan. In 2023, she oversaw the expansion of KSC's activities, including a national "No to Drugs, Yes to Life" campaign. Sara also lobbies the government to adopt a more holistic approach to combating drug trafficking, focusing on rehabilitation instead of incarceration. In September 2023, Sara Rashid became the President of Kurdistan Save the Children (KSC).


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rashid Sara 1987 births Living people Children's rights activists Alumni of King's College London Alumni of University College London Kurdish activists British people of Kurdish descent 21st-century Kurdish people People from Surrey