Kuwait college students launch anti-bias awareness campaign

Kuwait college students launch anti-bias awareness campaign

By Faten Omar

KUWAIT: College students launched an anti-bias awareness campaign on social media to end discrimination in the community. Kuwait Times spoke with the four friends who decided to spread awareness by posting stories of people who have experienced discrimination. The four students from the American University of Kuwait — Zahraa Al-Qattan, 17, majoring in systems engineering, Negin Kardani, 19, information systems, Judy Alnaimy, 18, accounting and finance, and Layla Al-Khuraibat, 19, majoring in computer science — have a goal to deliver the message in order to stop this phenomenon.

Kuwait Times: Why did you decide to choose this topic?

Zahraa: We have witnessed discrimination since we were young, but never acted on it. Now that we are old enough, we want to take action and stop it. We have seen the amount of mental and physical health issues affecting other people and us personally, because we have also experienced it. It’s sad to see it spreading in Kuwait and globally. No one should face this just because they are different from others. Now that we are older, we also see how it impacts the peace of the world. This issue can literally create wars and yet some people are still not