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Afghanistan Trip Leaders
Najib Sedeqe has been coordinating and leading Global Exchange delegations since 2002. He studied medicine (war surgery) with the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) for 3 years. From 1998 to 2000, he worked with ICRC as their medical staff intensive care unit supervisor in their surgical hospital in Kabul. From 2000 to 2003 he worked with the Emergency Surgical Center in Kabul as Administrator. During the past decade of civil war in Afghanistan, he has continued to provide his medical services. In 1992 a rocket attack destroyed his house injuring himself, his sister, and his brother. While working with ICRC, Najib also studied literature part time at Kabul Educational University where he graduated with a BA in 1997. In addition, he took courses in cinema and film for 2 years, and created programs and short films for Kabul TV youth program. He worked many years as the Country Director for Afghans4tomorrow (A4T) and in late 2007 became Board Member of A4T. In addition to the Global Exchange delegations, Najib has coordinated and guided four A4T "Bare Roots" delegations, which have planted trees in rural and urban areas of Afghanistan, as well as other visitors to Afghanistan.
Wahid Omar is the current President of Afghans4tomorrow (A4T), and is on the Board of Directors for this non-profit organization helping with the reconstruction of Afghanistan, and education of disadvantaged Afghan youth. Born in the Afghan capital Kabul, he left Afghanistan shortly before the Soviet invasion in 1979. He lived in France as a political refugee until 1987, when he moved to the United States, where he received his Bachelor's degree at the University of Colorado at Denver in 1991, (majoring in International Affairs) and his Master's degree in French Literature at Colorado State University in 1994. He is a PhD candidate at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of French and Italian. He has organized and participated in numerous conferences about Afghanistan in the U.S. and in Europe. He has a special interest in ethnography, community development, and has collected Afghan folklore, which in 2003 garnered the attention of the Smithsonian Institute. In his position as a full-time lecturer at CU Boulder, teaching in the Department of French and Italian, as well as in the Department of Ethnic Studies, he has won many awards for his teaching and writing. Mr. Omar has lived for periods of time in Afghanistan since 2002 where he worked as an educational consultant for the UNDP at Kabul University. Since 2007 he has been living in Kabul and leading a successful masters program at Kabul Education University, a project funded by the Center for International Education at the University of Massachusetts.
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