Lina Shehayeb
Gift of Life, Lebanon
Biography
At the age of sixteen she started working with juvenile delinquents in the Lebanese prison system and continued during her time in New York working with homeless children and abused women and raising money for Lebanon from abroad. This work has continued all the way up until her current office as founder and president of Gift of Life Lebanon. Since its in foundation in 2015 Gift of Life Lebanon has managed to provide live saving heart surgery for over 200 children as well as preform over 1000 free medical checkups to disadvantaged children throughout Lebanon. In doing this work she has managed to mobilize and activate different strata within local communities particularly the youth, bringing people together across Lebanese society, in engaging the kind of work that can help foster the new leaders of the coming generation
Abstract
Abstract : Pediatric cardiac surgery in developing countries and the role of NGO’s