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IDB awards female social workers
The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has awarded this year's IDB Prize of $50,000 to Runa Khan of Bangladesh and Saideh Ghods of Iran in recognition of their efforts to improve healthcare for women.
- By Mariam Al Hakeem, Correspondent
- Published: 00:30 May 2, 2008
Riyadh: The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has awarded this year's IDB Prize of $50,000 to Runa Khan of Bangladesh and Saideh Ghods of Iran in recognition of their efforts to improve healthcare for women.
Runa Khan is the founder and executive director of Friendship, a non-profit volunteer organisation working to improve the health and socioeconomic condition of the poor in Bangladesh.
Khan owns a floating hospital which provides mobile health units to the people of the Nomad Islands situated in north Bangladesh. The programme has served over 271,309 beneficiaries.
In 2006, Runa Khan also was involved in sending relief services to Pakistan's earthquake victims.
Saideh Ghods is the founder of Mahak, a society to support children (suffering from cancer.
Mahak provides medical treatment through the Mahak Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre. It has supported 11,505 children over the past 17 years.
The IDB prize (institutions and non-governmental organisations) has been awarded to both the Orphan Care Society of Saudi Arabia and the Afia Society for Agricultural Development and the Health Care of Sudan.
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