Sandra Kabir
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Cllr Sandra Kabir |
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| সান্ড্রা কবির | |
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Brent London Borough Councillor for Queensbury ward |
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Assumed office 6 May 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Atiq Malik |
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In office 2 May 2002 – 4 May 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Eric McDonald |
| Succeeded by | Atiq Malik |
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Sandra Mostafa Kabir 2 November 1949 London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
| Children | 3 |
| Residence | The Hyde, Barnet, Barnet London, England |
| Occupation | Executive Director of BRAC UK |
| Profession | Philanthropist, politician |
Sandra Mostafa Kabir (Bengali: সান্ড্রা মোস্তফা কবির; born 2 November 1949) is a British philanthropist, Executive Director of BRAC UK, Labour Party politician and councillor for Queensbury.
Kabir is of mixed descent, born to a Bangladeshi father and an English mother. She was born along with her younger brother and sister in London, England. Her mother was born Church of England but was agnostic.
In 1963, Kabir and her family left London when she was 13 because her father decided to return to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) where he had left from 22 years previously, at the time he was 45 to 46 years old. Her parents died in Bangladesh.
In 1995, Kabir and her second husband returned to London so their youngest child could have a better level of education.
Since 1976, Kabir has worked in development with donor agencies, international and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs). She has worked predominantly in the area of sexual and reproductive health and rights and women's development and rights.
Kabir began her career in Bangladesh as a Programme Officer for the south west Asia regional office of FPIA, established a national women's NGO, played a leading role in the NGO movement and worked on the boards of several NGOs. She has experience in poverty alleviation and people's empowerment programme design and implementation, fund raising and advocacy, spanning Asia, Africa and the United Kingdom. Kabir worked in the regional office of the Family Planning International Assistance (FPIA), an agency disbursing United States Agency for International Development (USAID). After the Ronald Reagan administration decided to withdraw funding for abortion, USAID exerted pressure on Bangladeshi and international organisations receiving USAID fund to segregate menstrual regulation and medically induced abortion from other services. Kabir joined Concerned Women for Family Planning, which received funding from FPIA but also eventually came under pressure from USAID.
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