I first met Rawda last year when I started doing my Forty Stories blog. After I took a break for the last year I am revisiting her story as the stories of women age 40 and beyond are important to tell and I wanted to continue telling hearing them and recounting them.
What I’ve learned from talking to so many women is how many different perspectives and how unique everyone is. We all have a story to tell and here is Rawda’s.
Rawda was born in Lebanon but due to wanting a better life, her family moved to Dubai. She eventually came to Montreal on her own as a young woman and continued her education at Mcgill where she studied science. Years later, Rawda is a single mom raising 2 kids and completing her PHD, focusing on “Post Traumatic Growth”.
She is passionate in her job as an adult education teacher and loves to reach her students in any way she can, through art, teaching outside while sharing food and tea with them and other creative ways. She tries to give her students as much support as she can because she believes that giving support helps not just now but for future generations.
In everything she does, she tries to give the support that she herself needed when she was younger but didn’t always gets. In this way she is applying her studies in Post Traumatic Growth to “see the positive in trauma”. Joining and helping out with many local organizations, Rawda works hard to help people in her community of NDG and beyond. She creates events to collect items to give to refugees and new immigrants through 514CommUNITÉ and is also serving on the board at Head and Hands and collaborating with the Bread and Beyond and Prevention NDG organizations.
A great example of “be the change you want to see in the world” and an awesome women doing great things.
