THE WOMAN BEHIND THE GIVER
Aug 26, 2022
4 minutes
BY ROXANNE MOONEYS
PICTURE:
MISHA JORDAAN
WHEN a devastating cyclone hit Bangladesh in 1991, a young couple from Pietermaritzburg watched the images of suffering in horror. They had to do something, Dr Imtiaz and Zohra Sooliman told each other.
The medical doctor and his preschool-teacher wife got to work. They collected donations of food, clothing and other essential items to send to the South Asian country. But they faced a hurdle: getting everything there.
Then the SA government gave them a fully crewed ship to transport the goods. “All they asked in return was that we drop off a few trucks in Turkey on the way,” Zohra (58) tells us at a Cape Town hotel where
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