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Welcome Back IHIG!
We look forward to seeing you all tomorrow for a pizza lunch during this great Social Justice Week series of events!
We are honored to welcome Ms. Kacapor to GUSOM to share her fascinating and important work with us. The seminar will be lecture and case-study based and will be a great learning experience for all. Please join us!
Who: Ms. Azra Kacapor
What: Child Trafficking as a Public Health Crisis and case study-based interactive discussion
Where: GA2-4
When: noon, March 26
Azra Kacapor Nurkic
is the Director for Children and Youth Programs at World Learning
headquarters based in Washington,
D.C. and is responsible for
overall strategic and operational leadership of the child and youth program
portfolio of World Learning. For more then a decade Azra has been working in
the field of child protection and international education. She lived and worked
with children in especially difficult circumstances in Bosnia and Herzegovina, throughout Middle East and
Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America
designing and implementing psychosocial and alternative education programs,
anti-trafficking interventions and victim protection strategies. Throughout her
carrier she developed models and implemented child protection and education
training for NGO staff and studied the needs and resiliency factors of children
in crisis. Prior to joining World Learning, Azra worked with World Vision US
for over nine years in various roles providing strategic leadership and technical
expertise in Children in Crisis programming. Azra is the recipient of
distinguished academic awards and is
an author of numerous articles in professional journals and a presenter at
conferences.
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