Heba Rashed

About

Heba graduated from Faculty of Al Alsun (Linguistics), Ain Shams University. She received her master and 3 diplomas in project management. After 13 years working for the private sector, she volunteered for ten years, to help various charitable organizations, especially the ones involved with supplying medical treatment to poor people. With the experience she gained and the urge to help underprivileged people to receive better health care she worked in a hostile masculine society and fought her way through all the bureaucracy and the society preferences and registered her Charity Foundation on 2015 "Mersal" Mersal -the main project of Heba Rashed- works to find and fulfill the gaps and drawbacks of the health system in Egypt, through providing a comprehensive healthcare program that gives the medical support to all the patients without any discrimination the project had helped thousands of needy patients by collecting donations from individuals and through a wide network of peer to peer, system and using only word of mouth and the good will in people! and to ensure the sustainability of her project she started two small business models to increase the income of Mersal, both of which serving her society Mersal Store, which helps small businesses to have a chance to reach out for customers through the big network of Mersal and a percentage of the sales goes to support the administration fees of Mersal Mersal Academy, which helps developing and training youth improving their skills to compete in the labor market and all the income goes to support the administration fees of Mersal •• Awards & Milestones • 2021 “Heroes of Change” award, the Swedish Embassy in Egypt. • 2021 “Friends of Migrants” award, the International Organization for Migration, UN. • 2021 Listed by the Dutch Embassy amongst the 21 Most Influential Women of the Year. • 2021 Received 93 K USD from AstraZeneca in cooperation with CAF in support of Mersal’s efforts in fighting lung cancer, in addition to 10 K USD in support of the foundation’s nationwide activities during Covid-19 pandemic. • 2021 award of recognition on International Women’s Day, Egyptian Ministry of Culture. • 2021 Featured in the Washington Post: “Charity in Egypt, an oasis of care amid misery of pandemic.” https://bit.ly/3HGsM54