Nusaibah provides updates about her work in Bangladesh following her Projects for Peace grant award.
Earlier this year, Narjis Nusaibah ’26 received Projects for Peace grant funding for breast cancer screenings in Bangladesh. What did Nusaibah do with that funding? She got busy!
“I started a nonprofit named Alo Health with the Projects for Peace fellowship,” Nusaibah said. “We run workplace screenings, diagnostic camps, and remote clinics; teach breast self-exams; act as primary providers for suspected cases; and run a research stream to collect the data we need to improve and scale our work. As of now, we have taught around 5,000 women how to do breast self-exams, clinically screened 400 women, and have identified 28 suspected cases.”
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