Zohor Abdul Rahim Nasser began her voluntary career from a young age, even contributing to peace years before the war broke out.
She was still in ninth grade when she felt like she belonged to the volunteers and was passionate about their initiatives, becoming part of that scene until her last moment at school
After joining the English department at the Faculty of Education at Taiz University, Nasser was forced to “slow down a little bit of her voluntary life,” she says, explaining: “Looking forward to snatching advanced ranks at the university deprived me of my passion for participating in initiatives, but I made up for it after getting a bachelor’s degree and joining training courses at several institutes.”
The experiences she got in those courses doubled her enthusiasm for working and delivering something to those around her, and instead of being involved, she founded her own initiative and led the “journey of making people happy,” just as she prefers to describe what she’s doing.
After joining the English department at the Faculty of Education at Taiz University, Nasser was forced to “slow down a little bit of her voluntary life,” she says, explaining: “Looking forward to snatching advanced ranks at the university deprived me of my passion for participating in initiatives, but I made up for it after getting a bachelor’s degree and joining training courses at several institutes.”
The experiences and experiences she got in those courses doubled her enthusiasm for working and delivering something to those around her, and instead of being involved, she founded her own initiative and led the “journey of making people happy,” just as she prefers to describe what she’s doing.
“After the initiative was formed, we helped people through many projects, such as fasting breakfast, Eid clothing and sacrificial distribution, perhaps not big business, but it really pleased a lot of people and alleviated the battles of life requirements that they had to fight alone.”
The young woman, who was able to put out people’s battles with life during her childhood, was strong enough to face the real war and grew up.
As soon as the war broke out in March 2015, Zohor left her home city of Taiz on a two-year of exodus.
“The war broke out and I was forced to flee for two years, the first year I spent in the village, the second in Sana’a, and I had harsh experiences, but it strengthened me,” she says.
Zohor did not give in to the despair she was born inside because she became displaced like the rest of the displaced, during her time in Sana’a, she worked at Sana’a University as a probationary for a small daily fee, then studied secretarial at a private institute, before working as a representative of Adat, and until early 2017 decided to return to Taiz
After the two years of the diaspora, Nasser returned to her city, more cohesive and hopeful, not taking a break after the war-exhaustion, but immediately sought to provide a lot of help and assistance to the community and contribute to peace-building through several voluntary areas.
Through her work with the Social Fund for Development, The Taiz Branch participated in the realization of the Fund’s peace and development project
Zohor considers this project to be the most prominent achievement of her life, where she worked for two years hard to achieve it, and was represented in the repair of the flood drainage channels in the city, which was closed with waste and dust, and the number of beneficiaries is not less than 20 thousand people
At a time when shells and bullets were killing dozens of people in Taiz, their weakness was the victims of another silent but fiercer war, the deadly war of diets resulting from the accumulation of waste in flood banks, which the young Zohor Nasser had already helped put out
“She says ”By repairing an entire network of an integrated residential neighborhood that for years has suffered from the peace solution in the neighborhood, where the population is living in psychological comfort and in good health free of infectious diseases and epidemics,”
Her success is limited to four years after returning from displacement on the voluntary side, but also included the scientific aspect, as she did not only have a bachelor’s degree in English, to study media specialization at the Faculty of Arts, Taiz University , a recent graduate of it
For Zohor, all these work, in addition to her participation in projects, relief work, assistance to displaced persons and awareness of the dangers of epidemics, with the National Organization for Health Development, Youth Without Borders and the Social Fund for Development, the Building and Caravan Development and Relief Fund, are a qualitative addition to her cv and professionalism, and most importantly, she wanted her to be part of the peace-building process
This report is published simultaneously and within the framework of the “peace builders” activity, in cooperation between the “Humans of Taiz platform” and the Manasti 30.
