Born and raised in Kandahar, Shaheeda trained as a midwife and first served the women of her own community. After the Soviet invasion of 1979, her family fled to Pakistan, where the refugee camps became her next calling.
For more than ten years she cared for Afghan refugee women, providing healthcare and holding communities together through displacement and loss. When she returned to Afghanistan, she brought women into public life, representing Kandahar in three historic Loya Jirgas and later serving on the country’s High Peace Council.
Through every chapter, she held to a single conviction: that peace and progress could never exclude half the nation. Afghan Women Collective carries that conviction forward, so the next generation of Afghan women can learn, heal, and lead.