Rare Girls

Wijdane Abdelhakim is a Moroccan girl living in Sidi Bennour city, and she is a baccalaureate of mathematic and science first year student.

Wijdane really enjoys reading, writing poetry, traveling, public speaking and she works in the field of children’s rights with UNICEF

Wijdane participated in the Arab reading challenge since she was 9, she participated in public speaking contests in French and in English, and won second place in Morocco.

Instagram: @wijda_ne02

Fotima Shohzodamuhammadova is a Tajik girl, married and the mother of a little boy, a graduated of Social Work and has a Master's Degree in Sociology.

Moreover, she studied inclusive education in India.

Currently, she lives in Jordan and works for an American company named Qudos as a sociologist. On a volunteer basis, providing psychosocial support for different categories of people.

She has published more than 10 articles on different topics, including migration, divorce, women's rights and other topics, in the USA, Russia, Tajikistan, and Canada.

Instagram: @fotima.sh

Romina Mehrabi is from Tehran, Iran, and currently living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Romina is a Bachelors of Computer Science (2nd year) student in a UoPeople non-profit online American university.

Romina enjoys programming, creating and listening to music, video editing, playing basketball, playing piano, and swimming.

Romania ranked in various teenage competitions, including for playing Piano and swimming.

She struggled with mental health from the ages of 12 to 18, but finally overcame it, which she considers her proudest achievement.

Instagram: @rominaxrose

Milana Platonova is from Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, and currently a third year student in V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Her subject is International Relations with in-deep learning of Chinese.

Milana is an activist and member of the All Ukrainian Social Democracy platform. She is also engaged in the development of the youth sector and together with her team held several events in this area.

Instagram: @prezident_mp

Ritedj Trabelsi is a published author with her own book and the first Algerian girl in this project to support women and share the lives and experiences of Unique girls from all over the world.

Ritedj is 15 years old, she lives in Algiers, the capital city, and she is a first year student at the best high school in Algeria, the Mathematical High School

They accept only the first and the second ranked students in every city.

Ritedj is a public speaker, a young journalist, tv host, radio presenter, the youngest TV Presenter in Algeria, presenting two tv programs on public television, and presenting a radio program in the Algerian radio, a writer, and a book lover.

Ritedj won the first prize as the best tv host in Arab world during the Festival of Carthage (Tunisia), she won the first prize in the Arab world in Arabic competition (public speaking , poems, grammar ), the second prize in Algeria on Arab reading challenge, and she is the ambassador of Algerian childhood.

She is also a young web developer, frontend (HTMl, CSS, JavaScript).

Instagram: @ritedj.trabelsi

Chahd Krid is a 17 years old Tunisian girl who is a member of the Tunisian child Parliament, the representative of Tunisia in the Arab Child Parliament, the Tunisian Childhood Ambassador for Peace and Solidarity, a Radio Host and a young researcher at UNICEF.

Chahd loves reading, volunteering, association work and discovering new cultures. She speaks Arabic, French, English and Italian.

Chahd participated in the Arab Girl’s Summit and she is very interested in defending Women’s rights.

Instagram @chahd_krid_

Mouna Derquaoui is a Moroccan girl, a member of UNICEF Advisory Committee for Youth and Adolescents, living in Khenifra.

She is studying mathematical sciences. she loves reading books, singing, dancing, photography, and watching shows.

Mouna is a U Reporter, a program by UNICEF aiming to solve societal problems, she participated in public speaking competitions, and took some mentoring from Y PEER Morocco.

Instagram: @mouna.derq

Shahrbonu Shonazarova is originally from Tajikistan and now in DP 2 (grade 12 ) at Aga khan academy, Mombasa in Kenya.

She was accepted by Aga Khan Academy and began her independent life at the age of 13.

Shahrbonu loves visual arts, theatre, football, and reading. She is a residential captain in her school, the lead in the art club, and had the lead role in her school musical "Mamma Mia".

Instagram: @bonu_302_04

Yeva Lysyk is a Ukrainian girl living in Poland. Yeva is an active volunteer in 3 projects, and a mentor in @engstd.time

Instagram: @lysyk.yeva

Cosmina Moisescu is an Aerospace Engineering student at University Poltehnica of Bucharest.

Originally from Curtea de Arges, Romania, Cosmina loves fishing, drawing, archery, visiting abandoned places and spending time with her group of friends and family.

Soon, Cosmina will join a flight school to begin her private pilot license module.

Cosmina faced a lot of doubt from people when she first started flying at 16 years old, and the odds were against her success, still, she understood that being a pilot is the only thing she wants to do in life.

Instagram: @cosmina.moisescu