This month I continued to heal from all my surgeries. Another painful month with my shoulders causing me stress and pain.
I celebrated International Literacy Day 2021 online with the World Literacy Foundation.
I attended the World Pulse Community Mentor Midpoint Check In Zoom webinar with other mentors and mentees.
For those that don't know I was admitted to hospital after a few weeks of excruciating pain in my left ovary and required urgent surgery.
My cyst was removed 17th March 2020. This was my third polycystic ovarian surgery since 2004.
During November 2017 I had my first rotator cuff surgery on my right shoulder, and then a year later October 2018 I had the same surgery on my left shoulder.
Its been a long 4 years of excruciating pain, sleepless nights and slow healing.
I still have bouts of low energy, pain and anxiety.
This month was another particularly bad month, my left shoulder was very painful and typing incredibly difficult.
Thank you to all my friends and family who pray for my recovery and good health.
This year I celebrated International Literacy Day which takes place annually on the 8th September.
This year I campaigned for the World Literacy Foundation on social media in English and Urdu.
خواندگی کا عالمی دن 2021 مبارک ہو۔
اس سال میں نے خواندگی کا عالمی دن منایا جو کہ اس دن ہوتا ہے۔
8 ستمبر ہر سال۔
اس سال میں نے سوشل میڈیا پر ورلڈ لٹریسی فاؤنڈیشن کے لیے مہم چلائی۔
CEO Mr Andrew Kay
میں ورلڈ لٹریسی فاؤنڈیشن ریڈ-اے-تھون میں شرکت کر رہا ہوں۔
A special message from our CEO, Andrew Kay, about the importance of literacy and how the pandemic has affected children's education.
Without any effective reading intervention, children are at high risk of becoming functional illiterate adults.
We must act now to ensure free and inclusive education for all.
ہمارے سی ای او ، اینڈریو کی کا ایک خاص پیغام ،
خواندگی کی اہمیت اور اس وبا نے بچوں کی تعلیم کو کس طرح متاثر کیا ہے۔
بغیر کسی موثر پڑھنے کی مداخلت کے ،
بچوں کو فعال ناخواندہ بالغ بننے کا زیادہ خطرہ ہوتا ہے۔
ہمیں سب کے لیے مفت اور جامع تعلیم کو یقینی بنانے کے لیے ابھی کام
کرنا چاہیے۔
Special Message from CEO Andrew Kay - International Literacy Day 2021
سی ای او اینڈریو کی کا خصوصی پیغام - خواندگی کا عالمی دن 2021
بہت سے بچے جو کہ وبائی مرض شروع ہونے پر سکول شروع
کر رہے ہوں گے وہ ایک سال سے زیادہ عرصہ بغیر رسمی تعلیم کے
چلے گئے۔
ان بچوں کے لیے جو وبا کی بنیادی باتیں سیکھ رہے تھے
جب وبائی بیماری کا سامنا کرنا پڑا ، گھر کی مناسب مدد کے بغیر ،
رسمی تعلیم کا یہ فقدان رجعت کا باعث بن سکتا ہے۔
یہ نوجوانوں کو ان کے مستقبل اور قوم کے مستقبل کو خطرے میں ڈالنے
کا باعث بنتا ہے جو ان کی مہارتوں اور صلاحیتوں سے محروم۔
ہو جائے گا۔
Urdu Translation
ہر شخص کو خواندگی کا حق حاصل ہے۔
Urdu Translation
خواندگی انتظار نہیں کر سکتی۔
During September 2021 the World Pulse team organised a Zoom webinar inviting Mentors and Mentees to share their experiences of the Community Mentor programme.
The purpose of the midpoint check-in webinar was to share experiences of both the mentors and mentees, learn, motivate, encourage and acknowledge successes and resolve challenges.
It was lovely to be a part of the program and hear from other participants who called in from all parts of the world.
Many thanks to Jill, Manasa, Alexandra, Paula and Dawn for their support.
I am struggling to type and I felt reassured when the World Pulse team understood how difficult it was for me to type and respond to surveys and messages.
I explained how I would help Minakshi with her social media presence and hopefully create a Twitter account.
By establishing a Twitter account I hope that Minakshi and her team can upload and post videos and photographs of her current initiatives which include convincing the rural community to take the Covid 19 vaccines.
I am attaching some photographs of the webinar below.
Welcome slide
Dawn at World Pulse
Agenda for the midpoint check in webinar
Resilience slide
Resilience slide with Alessandra
Paula Elsten's segment
Next steps slide
I look updating this blog and celebrating the end of the programme December 2021.
Thank you for reading and I hope to bring you another monthly blog next month health prevailing.
Love and respect to everyone making and being the difference.
Sabeena
World Literacy Day 2021 with Sabeena Z Ahmed
Living with PCOS and Endometriosis - by Sabeena Ahmed
This month my right shoulder is still very painful and I have struggled to record this vlog and type this blog.
This month I supported fairtrade fortnight 2024 and celebrated Fairtrade's 30th Anniversary.
Here is my Easy Fairtrade Cocoa and Fairtrade Bananas Recipe which I baked for Fairtrade Fortnight 2024.
I have tried my best to translate this recipe in Urdu.
یہ ہے میری ایزی فیئرٹریڈ کوکو اور فیئر ٹریڈ کیلے کی ترکیب جسے میں نے فیئر ٹریڈ فورٹ نائٹ 2024 کے لیے پکایا تھا۔
میں نے اس ترکیب کا اردو میں ترجمہ کرنے کی پوری کوشش کی ہے۔
This month I supported fairtrade fortnight 2024 and celebrated Fairtrade's 30th Anniversary.