Dalai Lama Fellows
Hafsa Ahmed
Leadership Vision
To be a leader is to first become a learner. Though taking incentive and being proactive is necessary for any leadership work, it must be prefaced with critical awareness of what kind of action to take (and whether you're the right person to take it), followed by radical patience in gaining the knowledge/skills necessary to implement said action.
Project Description
Peer-Minded is a youth-led initiative advocating for youth mental health through knowledge dissemination and peer support strategies. Its online learning platform provides mental health training & support to university students in the UAE. Through self-paced learning modules, discussion forums, live webinars, and dynamic group activities, the platform equips youth to recognize contextual mental health challenges, support their peers, and form community with fellow trainees. Peer-Minded concurrently partner with universities, providing them with student wellbeing insights collected through the platform to develop institutional capacity and promote a holistic evidence-based approach toward better student wellbeing outcomes.