I deeply believe we must restore mercy to our society, our universal brotherhood, our empathy, which can overcome all barriers and reveal the true nature of men and women. As human beings we all share hopes, dreams, fears and wishes. In light of this we cannot be indifferent and passive in the face of suffering in those around us.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne year ago, MOAS opened the first Aid Station in Shamlapur, a fishing village in Cox’s Bazar, where Rohingya people would land after perilous sea crossings from Myanmar. Shamlapur was......
Reading Time: 4 minutesOn October 3rd 2013, Italy and the entire world woke up with the horrific news of a shipwreck killing 368 people off Lampedusa, Europe’s doorstep. The day after, public opinion......
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn October 3rd 2013, the life of my family deeply changed from a personal and professional point of view. Since then, we actively committed to decreasing casualties at sea and......
Reading Time: 3 minutes“Our efforts to manage migration have borne fruit: arrivals have been drastically reduced”, declared Jean-Claude Junker in his State of the Union speech summarizing the latest achievements and setting new......
Reading Time: 3 minutesA swing, a little girl dressed in red walking in front of an Aid Station, the smile of some children playing behind her, a boy waving goodbye. This picture –......
Reading Time: 2 minutesNur Begum is around nine years old and lives in Balukhali camp, Bangladesh. She lives amongst thousands of Rohingya who fled Myanmar after the latest crackdown by official authorities. She......
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne year ago, the latest wave of violence against the Rohingya stateless Muslim minority in Myanmar started, but no solution is in sight yet. The Rohingya exodus pushed more than 700,000......
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen Nur Fatema (20) arrived at the MOAS Aid Station in Shamlapur, Bangladesh, her sadness was evident by looking into her eyes. Fully veiled, only her eyes were visible entirely......
Reading Time: 4 minutesReya is 18, is part of the local community and came to the MOAS Aid Station in Shamlapur for a sore throat. Here, she was diagnosed with acute tonsillitis and......
Reading Time: 4 minutesAnwara precariously walks on some slippery steps with a big water pitcher in her hands. Her small profile almost disappears amid the chaos inside Bangladeshi Rohingya camps, where people are......
I believe in social business and philanthropy. I am actively connected to different humanitarian projects. Together with my husband, we created MOAS and Tangiers Group, our family business, where I am currently a member of the Board of Directors
“the human species — we, in short — had the potential to construct an enormity of pain, and that pain is the only force created from nothing, without cost and without effort. It is enough not to see, not to listen, not to act”
Primo Levi
“Omnia munda mundis; coinquinatis autem et infidelibus nihil mundum, sed inquinatae sunt eorum et mens et conscientia”