This month I continued to heal from all my surgeries, raised awareness for Fairtrade Ethical Ramadan 2021 participated in a Wikipedia training session with Whose Knowledge and World Pulse and
was Sister of Ceremonies for the Encourager Party with World Pulse.
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.
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.
I am learning more about self care, a good healthy diet, exercise and loving myself.
Thank you to all my friends and family who sent get well messages.
This year I celebrated Fairtrade Fortnight 2021 alone shielding in London, UK.
This year the Fairtrade Foundation's campaign is about Climate Change, Fairtrade and You.
Continuing the theme I thought I'd continue campaigning for fairtrade farmers and producers by raising awareness for fair trade and ethical products during Ramadan.
Fairtrade Ramadan Day 1
Day 2
Fairtrade green decaf tea!
Fairtrade Ramadan 2021, Day 2 - Support fairtrade tea producers with Sabeena Ahmed (fairtrade green decaf tea)
Fairtrade Ramadan 2021, Day 2 - Support fairtrade tea producers with Sabeena Ahmed (fairtrade green decaf tea)
Day 3
Day 4
Many thanks to my sister Irem for supporting fairtrade and fairtrade banana farmers this Ramadan.
Proud to support the Cooperativa Bananera de Rio Frio Coobafrio (COOBAFRIO), Colombia banana producers and farmers.
Day 7
This month I participated in a Wikipedia training session with Whose Knowledge and World Pulse and
was Sister of Ceremonies for the Encourager Party with World Pulse.
The Wiki session was an eye opener and I struggled to add a photo to Wikipedia due to not having any reading glasses.
I hope the World Pulse team will organise further training sessions for those of us who believe women of colour and ingenuity have been ignored for too long.
Many thanks to the Whose Knowledge team for their time and patience.
We are a global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the majority of the world) on the internet.
3/4 of the online population of the world today comes from the global South – from Asia, from Africa, from Latin America. And nearly half all women are online. Yet most public knowledge online has so far been written by white men from Europe and North America.
To address this, we work particularly with women, people of color, LGBTQI communities, indigenous peoples and others from the global South to build and represent more of all of our own knowledge online.
Whose Knowledge? is a radical re-imagining and re-design of the internet, so that together we build and defend an internet of, for and by all.
At the end of April I was asked to host a session to over 30 women about encouraging and uplifting other women during a hour Encourager Party.
Many thanks to Dawn and Manasa for their support.
If you've read this far, you deserve lots of fairtrade chocolate.
Thank you for reading and I hope to bring you another monthly blog next month
Love and respect
Sabeena
Fairtrade Ethical Ramadan 2021 with Sabeena Ahmed (TBA)
This month I continued to recover from my right shoulder treatment.
I remotely attend two webinars about 'Understanding the home décor
and textile and apparel market.'
These webinars were organised by ITC.
This month I continued to recover from my right shoulder treatment.
I managed to attend a World Social Enterprise Day 2024 remote webinar.
I have updated my blog I wrote in 2021 about living with invisible disabilities and chronic pain.
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