Hanan Ashegh is a psychologist, a published researcher, a mother, and a humanitarian at heart. She has worked in the field of mental health and trauma for years, which has greatly informed her work with refugees and displaced populations.
After founding Goodwill Caravan in 2015, Hanan built an emergency response hub in Athens, Greece, mainland, and borders in 2016. She then officially registered Goodwill Caravan in both Greece and the UK in 2017, followed by registration as a 501(c)(3) and LLC in the U.S.A. The INGO now runs global anti-trafficking protection projects.
Currently, Hanan is building an online anti-trafficking information platform to prevent the exploitation of displaced populations.
About Me:
Education & Training
A mental health practitioner, a published Neuroscience researcher, a mother and a humanitarian. Hanan has in-depth experience in providing aid during the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe since 2015. Her humanitarian response work started with mass aid distributions and asylum support for refugee families in the Calais Jungle in 2015-2016.
Hanan volunteered for over a year as an interpreter and care worker for unaccompanied children and minors stuck in the Jungle Refugee Camp in Calais before moving onto humanitarian work in Greece. Hanan founded Goodwill Caravan in 2015 as a response to news reports of the atrocities taking place in Syria and adjoining war-torn countries, and also of missing unaccompanied children in refugee camps in Europe.
Initially, this began with bulk aid distributions, but has grown into protection anti-trafficking services for the most vulnerable displaced populations in Europe and beyond. Hanan then moved on to register Goodwill Caravan Greece and UK in 2017 and slowly gained a team of humanitarians that built what is known today as Goodwill Caravan emergency assistance humanitarian projects in multiple global hotspot locations.
