Wajiha Haris, Scheherazade Foundation president: “No” is never an option

Wajiha Haris has been living in Romania for seven and a half years and she now regards herself as an adoptive Romanian, with no intention to leave, since “there is so much to be done” around here. She considers herself a responsible citizen of Bucharest, just like anybody else born or simply living here and would most happily change Romanians’ pessimism, but not their warm and sociable nature. After rushing with her son in the middle of the night to a local hospital in dire need of modernization, she decided to start a foundation here in order to help - and never took 'no' for an answer.