On the occasion of International Women's Day of 15/03/2015, the Unit of Media and Public Cultural Relations at the University of Jordan honored the elite of the pioneers of Jordanian women including Mrs. Haifa Al-Bashir, a graduate of Faculty of Nursing-JU class 1982-83, for her social achievements and her efforts on the personal level, continuous giving to serve the Jordanian women, and caring for the elderly and the mentally ill, making her a national pride to the Jordanians.
The Dean of the College of Nursing Prof. Fethia Abu Mughli attended the ceremony of honor and participated in the event. Who is Mrs. Haifa Al Bashir?
Ms. Haifa Al Bashir is a decent lady graduated from the collage of Nursing on 1983; when the collage was on the beginnings of its development and prosper.
She struggled on the personal level during her career. She was forced by circumstances to raise her children as a single mother until they became a pride and she became an idol of success without limitations.
She occupied several leading positions in the Kingdom since the fifties, such as :
Head of White Beds Society for the care of elderly since 1971
President of the Jordanian Society for the Psychological Rehabilitation since 1994,
Chair of the Coordinating Committee for the associations chaired by Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah since 2000,
Member of the Coordinating Committee of NGOs in the National Committee for Women's Affairs since 1994
Honoring Mrs. Haifa Al-Bashir in the Women's Day is not the first where that Mrs. Haifa Al-Bashir got on many awards , trophies and royal medals , such as:
Independence Medal of the late King Hussein Society for the White Beds in 1975
Constitutional Adelaide Award from the Italian Cultural Center in 1977
King Hussein Award for Scientific Excellence University of Jordan in 1983
Queen Noor Prize for Children's Literature 1997
Dubai Festival Award of the Ideal Arabic Family 2006, by Sheikh Mohammed al-Maktoum
Hussein Award for Distinguished Giving 24 \ 5 \ 2007 from His Majesty King Abdullah II
eventually, it is worth mentioning that Mrs. Haifa Al-Bashir is also a woman of literature and an Author of a number of children's stories published since 1997