It’s a fact that women can multi task. This week we focus on a Sudanese woman who is multi-tasking and some.
Khansa Ahmed is a veterinarian who hails from Sudan and specifically from the Kush Kingdom. She is a current participant of President Obama’s Young African Leadership Initiative and is also currently pursuing her Masters at the University Of Nairobi. She refers to herself as Pan African and sister girl I feel you on that.
Khansa also has a sense of humor. When I first struggled to pronounce her name, she looked at me with a straight face and told me to forget the Kenyan way of spelling or pronouncing names and proceeded to teach me. She asked me to write down the letter h ten times and follow it up with “nsa” and then say it loudly. She then smiled and handed me some Sudanese fried raisins.
She is very passionate about women and is constantly looking for ways to help the marginalized communities to raise finance from self-sustaining projects like Fandora, an organization she founded.
Fandora is the first ever recycling project in Sudan. Khansa has led many workshops targeted at women to get new skills which have helped them increase their income.
Khansa’s journey involves traveling to and fro Nairobi and must constantly balance between her studies, Fandora and working as a vet. Being a vet has allowed her access to many rural areas in Sudan where she helps in protecting livestock from diseases and also helps the pastoral communities understand and practice environmental protection.
When this young African leader thinks of her continent, she sees nature, opportunity and hope. Khansa urges young Africans to work hard in the richest continent in the world. To put an end to funding from other countries and concentrate on the versatility of great and rich land, favorable weather and fresh water that enables us to feed the rest of the world.
In the next few years, this young woman intends to pursue a PhD after completion of her Masters degree. She is working on her organizations both as a vet and in recycling to empower thousands if not millions of African women.
Khansa is also a vegetarian and loves traveling. She has traveled to 24 countries and is currently looking and hoping that destiny will work its way and open a door to South America.
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