ONJALI Q RAUF is a multi award-winning children’s author and women’s and refugee human rights activist, founder and CEO of Making Herstory which works to end the abuse, enslavement and trafficking of women and girls in the UK, and O’s Refugee Aid Team which helps refugee response teams across northern France and beyond. She is author of bestseller, The Boy at the Back of the Class, winner of the Blue Peter Award and Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2019. She was listed as one of BBC’s 100 most influential women from around the world in 2019. Her first children’s play, The Hero Next Door, is scheduled to be staged in London in the spring of 2023.
Onjali will be speaking at Celebrating the Spirit of Community on 20th October from 19.00 to 20.30 BST (UTC/GMT+1) – click here for more information and click here to register.
