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fund seed grants for faculty research, help implement an annual series of speakers and workshops, and support internships for UO students in the Saudi kingdom — the UO’s first fully funded international internships in global health." The Aisha Al Mana
Endowment for Women in Nursing and the Health Sciences supports the education of women studying nursing and the health and medical sciences. Priority is given to Saudi women, but if there are no eligible Saudi women applicants, then women from other Arab countries are considered.
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Al-Mana has established foundations to support the education of Saudi women. The Aisha Almana Global Health
Program is a scholarship program at the University of Oregon, where she obtained her bachelor's degree. The program "will provide scholarships for Saudi women to study global health at the UO,
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during which participants called for "an independent body of a judicial nature" to protect women's inheritance. Saudi women are often pressured by family members, relatives, acquaintances and other members of society to give up any funds they may be entitled to inherit so that the inheritance may be
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Aisha al-Mana was one of forty-six women to organize a demonstration in Riyadh on 6 November 1990 to protest the
Kingdom's ban on women driving. Prior to the demonstration, the women had sent a petition to then-Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz, the governor of Riyadh at the time, requesting that he and
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King Fahad move to lift the ban. They drove their cars in a convoy until they were stopped and detained by the police. Al-Mana and several other participants described their experiences in the book,
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Al-Mana became the first female hospital director in Saudi Arabia in 1990, when she became
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