Adapted from her popular online blog, Backwards & Forwards is a heart-warming tale recounting a young woman’s multi-year journey through East Africa. The inspiringly well written story touches on themes relevant to travel, international development, community, friendship, love, social innovation, and the nuances of “expat life” in Africa.
In 2010, Sabrina was awarded a prestigious international development management fellowship through the Aga Khan Foundation Canada and Canadian International Development Agency. She was placed at the Community Health Department in Mombasa, Kenya for an 8-month period where she worked primarily on a maternal and child health project in rural Kenyan communities. She fell in love with East Africa and did not want to leave so she moved to Nairobi and continued her journey as the Academic Committee Coordinator of an Integrated Health System at the Aga Khan University Hospital in May 2011 — the result of this was a due diligence report presented to Princess Zahra and His Highness the Aga Khan. Thereafter, she began a one-year Time and Knowledge Nazrana (TKN) as the Project Manager of an Integrated Primary Health Care Start-Up Project at the Aga Khan University in Nairobi – a grant that sought to understand the barriers in accessing high-quality health care services in rural East African villages.
Backwards and Forwards recounts her experiences working in these roles and living in East Africa.
Backwards & Forwards by Sabrina Natasha Premji (Paperback) – Lulu.
Related: Sabrina Natasha Premji’s Blog: Backwards & Forwards, A Journery through Africa
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