Lina Al-Tarawneh
Lina Nayel Al-Tarawneh (born 2000 Qatar) is a Jordanian climate activist .
She lives in Doha and studies medicine at Qatar University. [1]
In 2015, she and her family made a trip to Al Khor Island. In October 2016, she won a Harvard Social Innovation Collaborative Global Trailblazer competition. In 2017, with her sister Dina, she founded the NGO Green Mangroves.[2] In 2017, she received a $15,000 grant from the Ford Motor Company.[3] She purchased kayaks, which the organization uses to organize kayak trips with the aim of clearing litter. [4][5]
She was chosen as campus director of the University of Qatar with her Millennium Fellowship Project : The Sustainable Wardrobe (formerly: The Slow Wardrobe ) on sustainable clothing. She sews her own clothes with linen fabrics, which come from flax, and are biodegradable. [6]
Al-Tarawneh was one of 26 young climate activists around the world honored as Doha's #SolvingIt26 Debates at Youth4Climate's Pre-COP26 Conference in Milan, the precursor to the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference.[7][8]
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- ^ "Lina Altarawneh | Qatar University". MillenniumFellowship. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
- ^ "Gulftimes : Doha Debates honours young climate activists at global youth conference". www.gulf-times.com. 4 October 2021. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
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