Najib Sedeqe has been coordinating and leading Global Exchange delegations for over a year now. He is 33 years old, married with four children (the oldest is 6). He studied medicine (war surgery) with the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC). In 1988, he worked with ICRC as their medical staff intensive care unit supervisor in their surgical hospital in Kabul until 2000. During the past decade of civil war that Afghanistan has experienced, he provided medical services. In 1992 a rocket attack destroyed his house injuring his sister, brother and Najib. During his work with ICRC, he studied literature part time at Kabul Educational University where he graduated with a BA in 1997. In addition, he took courses in cinema and filming for 2 years and made a program and some short films for Kabul TV youth program. He is now the Country Director for Afghans4Tomorrow and helps to run the guesthouse in Kabul.
Wahid Omar is the current Executive Director of Education for Afghans4tomorrow, a non profit organization helping with the reconstruction of Afghanistan. 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 (with a minor in International Affairs) in 1991, and his Master's degree in French literature at Colorado State University in 1994. He is currently 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. He has organized and participated in numerous conferences about Afghanistan in the U.S. and in Europe. He is also a musician and collects Afghan folklore, which has recently garnered the attention of the Smithsonian Institute. Mr. Omar has just came back from a humanitarian mission in Afghanistan where he visited and helped schools in Kabul, Paghman, and Farza.
