AREAS OF FOCUS: Emergency Response

Naza supports initiatives which provide emergency care and long-term development aid. 

In Naza’s Advisory work she has visited and supported UNICEF projects at the heart of humanitarian crises, including in Afghanistan, where she worked with the Afghan Girls Robotics team. 

Naza also supports a number of initiatives which provide both emergency care and long-term development aid plans. During the ongoing conflict in Yemen, she raised funding for urgent food, medical supplies and psychosocial care. Naza responded to the pandemic by leading several emergency interventions to provide food, hygiene and essential education to help refugees, Internally Displaced People (IDPs) and other vulnerable communities in the Middle East and Africa. This included 84 tons of soap for 350,000 people in Afghanistan in partnership with UNICEF, and feeding thousands of families in Lagos during the lockdown. 

Naza also works on identifying and deploying solutions to the impacts of climate change, investing in, for example, solar-powered boreholes through UNICEF’s Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) section in Northeastern Nigeria.