Sania Khan [Activist]

In 2007, Sania decided to start participating in a lot of community work including volunteering at seniors homes, food banks, local mosques, and for political parties. Sania soon felt that the places she was volunteering were solutions for a much bigger problem. Sania felt that seniors needed a more dignified life and should be able to have means to live and survive comfortably in their homes. She felt that food banks were temporary solutions for a much bigger long term problem of poverty. Sania then started working for bigger organizations that tackled the bigger issues. After winning over the leaders of many of these groups they had pushed her to run politically in order to really have a platform to make the changes that Sania wanted to see. In 2008, Sania ran for the NDP in the area of Scarborough-Guildwood, in Ontario in the federal elections. Although Sania only had 3 weeks to run a full federal campaign because of the short election call and late nomination, Sania ended up receiving more than 14% of the vote of the area.

During Sania’s campaign, she was involved in many debates, and some even televised on some of the biggest Canadian networks. Sania had also done many interviews with TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines.

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