CHILD AWARENESS PROJECT


Taha Fathima Khan



Medical Doctor.
Child Rights Advocate.



INTRODUCTION



Taha is the Founder & CEO of Child Awareness Project.

She is also a Global Youth Ambassador at A World at School, an initiative of Theirworld, which is headed by Sarah Brown. This movement was launched in 2014 by then UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and UN Special Envoy for Global Education (and former British PM), Gordon Brown.

Taha is a resident physician in Boston, USA, where she is training to be a Pediatric Neurologist.*


*(For Taha's educational qualifications and medical work experience, please request a CV)



Sarah Brown, President of Theirworld and wife of Former British PM, Gordon Brown, spoke to Taha as part of her podcast series, Better Angels.

In the episode below, titled 'Changemakers', listen to Taha as well as other inspirational people including Former Australian PM, Julia Gillard talk about what made them take the initiative to bring about a change.

Visit Theirworld's official website for more about Better Angels


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NON PROFIT EXPERIENCE



CHILD AWARENESS PROJECT



Founder & CEO



Taha founded CAP to help trace a missing child. Now, it is an award-winning non-profit used to advocate for children's rights.

2011-current

Visit theCAPro.org/about-us for more



A WORLD AT SCHOOL



Global Youth Ambassador



An Initiative of Theirworld, which is headed by Sarah Brown, this movement was launched in 2014 by then UN Secretary General, Ban ki-Moon and UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown.

2016-current

Visit aworldatschool.org for more



PAST EXPERIENCES





Additionally, Taha has engaged in various other voluntary activities such as planning lessons and teaching english to Burmese refugee children. She headed a female health education project in a children’s home to promote menstrual hygiene and remove the stigma surrounding it. She has also volunteered with Parkinson’s patients and fundraised and partaken in a health-screening & promotion project in a village. She has also taught English and mathematics to children with special needs



BLOGS



Taha is a contributing blogger for The Huffington Post


Blog

For International Day of the Girl on 11th October 2016, Taha wrote a blog for the United Nations Girls' Education Initiative.


Blog

During her time at the 2016 United Nations General Assembly for the #SafeSchools campaign, Taha co-blogged with her fellow Global Youth Ambassador, Ousmane Ba.


Open Letter Blog

As a Global Youth Ambassador at A World at School, Taha blogs for their parent organisation, Theirworld


Blog

Taha blogs on popular social media and blogging site, Medium.


Blog

Gallery



Taha with Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Chair of Education Commission and former British Prime Minister



Taha with Nobel Peace Prize 2014 laureate & child rights campaigner, Kailash Satyarthi.



Taha with Kevin Rudd, Chair of Sanitation and Water for All & former Australian Prime Minister



Taha speaking with Sarah Brown, President of Theirworld



Taha with Chair of Global Partnership for Education & former Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard



Taha & OUSMANE with Tarald Brautaset, NORWEGIAN DIPLOMAT AND FORMER AMBASSADOR TO UK & FRANCE



L-R: Dr. Amel Karboul (Former Mnister of Tourism, Tunisia), Taha , Ousmane Ba (Taha's co-Global Youth Ambassador)



Taha with Helle Thorning-Schmidt, CEO of Save the Children International and former Prime Minister of Denmark



Taha with HRH Princess Sarah Zeid of Jordan, Maternal & Newborn health advocate and wife of Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights



Taha (third from left) with some of the Education Commission Youth Panellists and A World at School Global Youth Ambassadors



Taha with Anant Agarwal, CEO of edx & Professor at MIT



Taha & Her FRIENDS with Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire at the #VTECS2018 (Veteran Trainers to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers) talk about gender based violence in conflict zones and the role it plays in the recruitment of child soldiers.



L-R: Ousmane Ba, Dean Brooks (Director, Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)) & Taha



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Check out Taha's interview with Sarah Brown!





As part of her newest podcast series, better angels, sarah brown set out to talk to inspirational people making a difference. LISTEN TO THE EPISODE TITLED "CHANGEMAKERS' WHERE SARAH TALKS TO TAHA AND OTHERS, INCLUDING FORMER AUSTRALIAN PM, JULIA GILLARD.


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