Tag Archives: Suraya Sadeed

Long Investment In Schools For Afghan Girls

May 10, 2012 – 2:15 pm

The plight and promise of the girls and women of Afghanistan have attracted advocates as high profile as former First Lady Laura Bush, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, journalist Christiane Amanpour, and feminist Gloria Steinem. But for pure staying power, few can rival Suraya Sadeed, MA ’12. Beginning in 1993, Sadeed has funneled money ...More

Building Schools

March 29, 2010 – 5:30 pm

Spreading Hope to 120,000 Afghan Children The two-hour car trip from her home in a suburb of Washington D.C. to graduate classes at EMU’s Center for Justice and Peacebuilding in Harrisonburg, Va., is a minor inconvenience for Suraya Sadeed, an Afghan-American woman who has spent days on horseback and foot to oversee the delivery of ...More