NELSON MANDELA
• Led the fight to end apartheid (separation of
different races) in South Africa
• Sent to jail for 27 years because he went
against the government in an attempt to end
segregation and racism
• Was president of South Africa from 1994-1999,
the first South African president to be elected
in a fully representative democratic election
• Nobel Peace Prize winner
ENAS EL-ATRASH
• 5 year old cancer patient
• She is bald because of her
chemotherapy treatment
(Remember – multiple piercings only means ‘more than one’)
ANOUSHEH ANSARI
Age: 40
Nationality: American/Iranian
Birth Place: Mushhad, Iran
She became the world's first female
space tourist, the first female Muslim
and first Iranian in space.
Paid a reported $20 million to come the world’s
1st female space tourist. Has a Masters
degree in Engineering and was the co-founder
of two successful IT companies. Anousheh
sold one of her companies for $750 million
KENDRA OHAMA
• Kendra started playing
wheelchair basketball in 1990
• She represented Canada at the
Barcelona Paralympics in 1992 and
has helped her team to win three
Paralympic gold medals, in 1992,
1996, and 2000, as well as a bronze
in Athens in 2004
• When not playing basketball, Ohama is a
goldsmith by trade
NELSON MANDELA
ENAS EL-ATRASH
What
surprised you?
ANOUSHEH ANSARI
KENDRA OHAMA