Shelina is a lawyer by profession and the mother of Tafida Raqeeb. Shelina is the powerful force behind the Tafida Raqeeb Foundation.

Since February 2019 she has made the hospital her residence and has spent every night with her daughter. Whilst caring for Tafida round the clock, Shelina reflected on the paucity of resources and care to support children with similar conditions to Tafida. She constantly contemplated on what she could do to support these children. This is when she realised that children in the UK do not have enough access to rehabilitation following a brain injury and that there was a fundamental shortage of facilities. And that is when the idea emerged of setting up the Foundation.
Despite the challenging journey, she decided to follow that path. Two years was
spent on planning the Foundation. At times it became unbearable, other times it was a race against time, but she carried on for the sake of all children. She believed that every child deserves a chance at life after sustaining brain injury.

Shelina has stated that “anything could happen any time to anyone of us as the pandemic has shown us. A sudden brain injury could happen to your child as it happened to my Tafida and it was completely out of the blue. But there is hope and I want to provide that hope to children”.

Shelina has managed to inspire so many people to share her vision of a Neuro Rehabilitation Centre in the UK. This is a bespoke Centre which will be the first of its kind. Shelina has showed huge strength of character and resolve in launching the Foundation and is working tirelessly to ensure her vision becomes reality very soon.