Global Health Initiative: Predeparture Training Workshop, March 27, 2011
Ms. Tasneem Damji
Tasneem’s extensive international experience ranges from implementing a school health education project in Pakistan, to facilitating workshops for teachers, health professionals and mothers to implement psychosocial activities for Albanian children and youth in a refugee camp in Bosnia, to providing appropriate training opportunities for local staff in Tajikistan. She also worked in the area of human resources, training and development at the Aga Khan Foundation in Tajikistan, facilitating workshops in the areas of health, education and rural development.
In another role, Tasneem coordinated a master’s level course in project planning and management, working with NGOs, regional governments and local communities, for which she developed case studies, educated facilitators on teaching styles and the learning culture of students in a post-Soviet society and provided student assistance. Tasneem’s interests lie in the cross-cultural issues associated with working in the field of international development and in particular, how people in the West can learn from people in developing countries. She is also passionate about making sure young people are prepared for the realities of working in this field.
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