Over the past few decades, Zaidi has pioneered highly successful interventions that take seriously the idea that poverty, at its core, is sexist, and solving global health issues means taking into account entrenched gender dynamics and the role of women from the start. A co-founder of the famed White Helmets — a search and rescue organization that formed as a grassroots volunteer-led response to the Syrian civil war — al-Saleh stood before the United Nations pleading for that work to end last December. As of March, al-Saleh is no longer head of the White Helmets, which dug over 100,000 Syrians out of the rubble and provided a range of other emergency services over the course of 11 years.
Author: Izzie Ramirez, Sara Herschander, Sigal Samuel, Shayna Korol
Published at: 2025-11-18 22:28:48
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