Naureen Gamdust Humanitarian Activist

Naureen Gamdust

School girls in Tanzania who cannot afford to buy pads miss up to 20% of their school year. They miss key topic days and even examinations because they are forced to stay at home during their period.

This leads to many of the girls eventually dropping out of school because of poor school attendance which leads to poor grades and overall poor performance.

Naureen Gamdust is the founder of The Purple Box, a charity organization that supplies underprivileged school girls in Arusha city and Marangu and Kilema in the Kilimanjaro region (Naureen’s ancestral home), with free pads every month. 

She graduated from Braeburn International High School in June 2015 where she graduated with the award of ‘’Highest Achiever in Business Management’’.

At the age of 15 she summited the world highest free standing mountain, Mt. Kilimanjaro. She enjoys sports, demonstrated by the various teams she has lead and has been a part of including football, basketball, swimming, athletics, netball, cross-country, field hockey and dance. In 2010 and 2014 she was awarded sports woman of the year at Braeburn International High School.  

She started a home based bakery business in 2013.  This endeavor combined two things she enjoys: the art of baking and growing a business from scratch.  

As well as her small bakery business and managing The Purple Box, she also has an ongoing fun initiative that she has nick named ‘Operation Sweet Smile’ whereby she bakes and donates a birthday cake to orphaned, abused and abandoned toddlers at Neema Baby House in Arusha. 

In university she wants to study Business Management, so she can go on to become a successful entrepreneur and influential woman. Upon completion of university, Naureen intends to return to Tanzania to work and to create a positive change to the lives of young women. She wants to make a difference in an otherwise patriarchal society.  

‘’Pads are a RIGHT not a LUXURY!’’

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