Fareed is a humanitarian professional from Syria. He is currently serving as the Youth Service Coordinator at Asylum Welcome in Oxford. He studied medicine at Aleppo University, Syria, and International Relations at Hasan Kalyoncu University, Turkey. Before coming to Oxford he worked for the international organisation Global Communities as the Co-Lead of the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Area of Responsibility in northwest Syria. He coordinated the humanitarian community’s response to GBV to provide lifesaving assistance to GBV survivors and at-risk women and girls, as well as training field responders and developing policies and guidelines to ensure that GBV is addressed in a contextualised and comprehensive manner.
Fareed plans to return to the Middle East’s humanitarian context to help design gender-sensitive policies in order to stop violence against women and girls and empower them in post-conflict and fragile settings.
