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This September, Huma Farid ’06 knew things at Harvard weren’t right...
After the earthquake that rocked Northern Pakistan, Farid, whose father’s family is from a village near the earthquake’s epicenter, spearheaded a coalition of student groups that planned relief events such as the Earthquake Banquet. “I realized it was more important than writing my thesis and worrying about schoolwork.” So instead, Farid fretted over catering, speakers, and venues...
...course, it doesn’t take a crisis for Farid to give her time generously: she is a Program Director for Project Health and participates in a peer-counseling program. The Boston Site Director for Project Health Tom Mackie praises Farid’s commitment to her clients, calling her an “exceptional volunteer and person.” Farid guides women through the bureaucratic red tape of Boston’s aid services to obtain necessities like healthcare and housing for them and their families...
...Cambridge Police Department (CPD) last week that said she was the victim of a racially motivated verbal attack. The report said the attack was directed at her because of her Muslim background, and the incident has sparked concern among Muslim students and other student organizations on campus. Huma Farid ’06 said that as she was walking on Quincy Street past Lamont Library at around 6 p.m. last Monday, she was speaking with her father on her cell phone when she heard screaming from a group of women across the street. “As I got towards...
...soon...very soon,” she said. “If we don’t get aid to these people by December 1 the world will be tacitly consenting to an additional million or so deaths,” Owais Siddiqui ’07 added. Huma Farid ’06, who organized the event, said the media response was insufficient in comparison to Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami that hit the region last December. “People don’t know that over 80,000 people have died, that over 70,000 people...