Rasha Saleh

The importance of protecting and conserving our planet

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Hosted by

Shirin Zemmo

Co-Host

Hilmarie Hutchison

About Rasha Saleh

Environmentalist, Founder of Enta Green, Outreach and Youth Engagement Officer at Emirates nature-WWF

Rasha El Saleh is an environmentalist based in Dubai. She currently holds the position of Outreach and Youth Engagement Officer at Emirates Nature-WWF, a leading environmental NGO, where she started working on their youth program called Connect with Nature. In her role, she is leading the youth engagement and empowerment aspect in growing the connection with the nature community within the UAE and providing opportunities for youth to lead in it and change their behavior. In addition to that, her role involves supporting partnerships with vendors promoting active aspects and experiences of the program. She’s also leading mobilizing youth within the global WWF network by supporting a Global Youth Action Team to give a voice, empower youth and involve them in global campaign’s strategies.

Besides her full-time job, Rasha is a blogger and the founder of a blog called Enta Green where she uses it to talk about the beauty of local nature, discussions of local and global conservation issues, education, awareness, and promotion of sustainable lifestyle and products. In 2019, she was the youngest participant picked by Airbnb amongst more than 140,000 global applicants to join their Antarctic Sabbatical which involved 5 volunteers as citizen scientists to support research on microplastics in Antarctica. She was also awarded in 2019 first place in the Feminine Monitoring for Sustainable Environment award by Ras al Khaima environment protection and development authority under the individual volunteering category.

About this Episode

In this episode, Shirin and Hilmarie, host and podcast’s producer, had a conversation with Rasha Saleh about her sustainable journey and how she decided to start the Enta Green platform. They talked about the importance of conserving and protecting the environment and how each of us can definitely play a role in raising awareness around the challenges that our planet is facing. Every little action counts, and it’s essential in changing the narrative and educating other people about these burning topics.

Tune in for another enlightening discussion.

“We are trying to raise awareness first to the locals and the people, the citizens who are living here and the visitors about our beautiful nature especially youth and away from the academic fields”
Rasha Saleh

“I’ve always seen it as a journey and I was always trying to inspire people who are a few steps behind in that journey to keep going and never give up.”

– Rasha Saleh

Show highlights

“Giving each person the responsibility that they can do something, they can inspire and they can make a change.”
Rasha Saleh

“Part of me aspiring to be part of that project is me trying to change, me trying to do something good about the environment. I have to say, I was also getting inspired through the way and learnings with the journey.”
Rasha Saleh