Mohammad Dawood Junaid

Pakistan
FST 2019

“I learnt more in the PET Center* tour about how patients are tested for different diseases through radioactive tracers delivered into their body as drugs, which induced me to consider a career in biomedical engineering.”

*Yale School of Medicine: Positron Emission Tomography Center

I started an NGO named Tadbeer-E-Pakistan which focuses on the people in interior sindh (the rural areas of my province) with the main goal of highlighting issues faced by different villages of Sindh, one village at a time. My team’s aim is not to provide short term sustenance but instead to provide training and awareness and help the people set-up self sustaining businesses and suggest longer term solutions for sanity, healthcare, food, shelter and energy.

For this project, I formed a team with some friends from my school. Up until now, we have se- up a medical camp for a day in the village, Taluka Johi (about 300 kilometres from my city), treating around 400 patients. Moreover, we have also discovered the issues faced by these people and will soon start to solve them. For this, we are planning to take these issues to the governor as well as other people from the government, since the issues faced by these people are much bigger than those which we can solve on our own. For example, their local lake which they used for drinking water is now contaminated with local sewerage and waste from a nearby petroleum factory.

Ambassador Year: 
2019