Nur M'Nasria is the Founder of Play for Smiles, an organisation that believes in the power of people and their passion, love and friendship to bring about change. She began her journey of service 19 years ago and since then impacted and changed the lives of over half a million people. She was awarded the Young Arab Award for Philanthropy in 2016 and to date continues to inspire everyone she meets to become instruments of change.

We talked to Nur about her personal story and various topics including - 

• What is “Play for Smiles”. 
• Why Kenya? 
• The impact of her childhood which led to her life choices of giving back. 
• Her programs including Play With Me - aimed at children. 
• Big Ten - rehabilitation of sex workers & woman empowerment in Kenya 
• Feed Me - how nutrition helped to reverse HIV+ in children. 
• The story of Dukku 
• Does the UAE have underprivileged people? 
• What we can all do to help? 
• Dare To Dream offer - help Nur to organise an event for less fortunate kids in the UAE during the upcoming Eid in August. 

To know more about Play For Smiles & Nur’s work check out their website & social media links below

https://www.playforsmiles.org
Instagram - playforsmiles 

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