Name: Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
Birthdate: October 17, 1959
Birthplace: Surinam, Mauritius
Profession: President and scientist
Achievements: She analyzed hundreds of medicinal herbs
and flowers and studied their properties. She also learnt
from traditional healers how to use them. She considers
forests living, biological laboratories and when she was
elected President of Mauritius (Indian Ocean), she started
fighting hard for the inhabitants of her country, not only
human beings but plants and animals.
Quote: “Humble plants hide surprising secrets.”
Name: Amna Al Haddad
Birthdate: October 21, 1989
Birthplace: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Profession: Journalist and weightlifter
Achievements: She was a journalist but she was not happy
with herself because she was overweight and unfit. She
started practising sports and having a healthier lifestyle.
She discovered weightlifting and trained to improve her
skills. She competed in Europe and America and she
became an icon for Muslim girls across the world.
Quote: “Nobody can tell me what I can and cannot do.”
Name: Jessica Watson
Birthdate: May 18, 1993
Birthplace: Gold Cost, Australia
Profession: Sailor
Achievements: She was afraid of water but she overcome
this fear thanks to her family and started loving the water.
She joined a sailing club and when she was 16, she decided
to sail around the world on her own. She packed her boat
with provisions and set sail from Sydney Harbour. She
fought against the weather and the waves, and seven
months later she arrived back in Sidney.
Quote: “You can’t change conditions, just the way you deal
with them.”
Name: Amelia Earhart
Birthdate: July 24, 1897
Birthplace: Kansas, United States
Profession: Aviator
Achievements: She saved enough money to buy an
airplane and was the first woman to fly alone across the
Atlantic Ocean. After almost fifteen hours she arrived in
Northern Ireland. She loved flying and doing things no one
had ever done before. She challenged herself to be the first
woman to fly around the world. Her plane disappeared
over the Pacific Ocean and was never found.
Quote: “Adventure is worthwhile in itself”
Name: Cleopatra
Birthdate: 12 August, 69 B.C.
Birthplace: Alexandria, Egypt
Profession: Pharaoh
Achievements: She was the daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh
and when he died, he left the kingdom to her and her
brother. They had such different ideas on how to run Egypt
and a civil war broke out. Julius Caesar, the emperor of Rome,
travelled there to help them find and agreement. She
persuaded him to restore her to the throne. They became a
couple and had a son. Caesar was killed and the new Roman
leader, Marc Anthony, wanted to meet the Egyptian strong
queen. They fell in love and had three children.
Quote: “I will not be triumphed over.”
Name: Jane Goodall
Birthdate: April 3, 1934
Birthplace: London, United Kingdom
Profession: Primatologist
Achievements: Her dream was to go to Africa and she flew
to Tanzania to study chimpanzees in their natural
environment. Whenever she visited the chimpanzees, she
would share bananas with them in order to become friends
with these wilds animals. She climbed trees with them and
ate the same food they ate. With that technique she made
some of the most important discoveries about primates and
she became of the great experts of the world in this field.
Quote: “Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care,
will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved”.