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Refugee working on frontlines of pandemic helping the immigrant community and last updated 2021-04-03 13:51:37-04 SACRAMENTO, Calif. â Aside from when sheâs giving a shot, you wonât see Sheeba Shafaq sit still. Sheâs working long days at a mobile COVID-19 clinic in Sacramento, helping the immigrant and refugee community. Shafaq learned this tireless dedication from her family growing up in Afghanistan. âI was home schooled by the books my brothers brought home from their school, and my parents worked so hard on me to get the education that I needed,â she said. Years later, schools were eventually opened to women. Shafaq s parents encouraged her to become a doctor like sheâd always dreamed of doing. ....
Meet an asylee driven to provide health care After fleeing her home in Afghanistan, Sheeba Shafaq began the long process of rebuilding her medical career in the United States. February 18, 2021 Photo: Derek Knowles/IRC Sheeba Shafaq always knew she wanted to work in health care, particularly women’s health. She can’t imagine herself doing anything else. The 29-year-old was on her way to becoming an OB-GYN in Afghanistan when her work promoting women’s rights led to threats to her life and she sought asylum in the United States. Now, the only member of her family in the U.S., Sheeba has thrown herself into the long process of earning the new credentials she needs to rebuild her career. She currently works as a supervisor in a mobile medical clinic that has focused almost solely on COVID-19 testing since March. There she puts in 10-hour days while taking classes and preparing applications for medical school. She also mentors IRC clients including other a ....
10 Stories of Support in a Year of Obstacles Facing challenges wrought by the pandemic, The Fund’s beneficiaries brought help to people and communities. Image Sheeba Shafaq faced threats for her work teaching reproductive health in Afghanistan. Now she leads a Covid-19 testing site in California.Credit.Max Whittaker for The New York Times Sheeba Shafaq International Rescue Committee Sheeba Shafaq grew up in Afghanistan watching her grandmother work as a midwife and her father help patients as a plastic surgeon and emergency medical technician. For her, treating people was the ultimate goal. But when Ms. Shafaq traveled outside Kabul to teach women about reproductive health, she faced threats and was unable to complete her residency to become a gynecologist and obstetrician. ....