April 3, 2018

Dania Hassan

Dania Hassan of Pakistan, 18, seeks to raise the quality of education throughout Pakistan.  After attending summer school at Johns Hopkins University via the U.S. Summer Sisters Exchange Program in 2016, Dania established an organization called “Fun to Learn,” through which teams of volunteers conduct extracurricular programming in underprivileged schools.  Dania and her team discuss pertinent topics regarding Hygiene and Health; Environmental Awareness and Going Green; School Safety; and Emergency Preparedness and Self-Defense.  Dania has won various speech competitions, including first prize at the All Pakistan Bilingual Declamation Contest in 2017 and hopes to one day join the United Nations.  She is the youngest high achiever of the Pakistan-U.S. Alumni Network’s #30under30 series.  Dania plans to enroll in university in the fall of 2018.  

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