Nayma Tarik

When you come from an overpopulated city in Bangladesh, the Gold Coast is a very tempting prospect as an education destination. For Nayma Tarik the idea of living here was much more than just a chance to escape the familiarity of crowds and endless traffic jams. The opportunity to study at Griffith University was a ticket to gaining a world class education and to ultimately work in the field of biomedical science.

This is the story of a young Muslim girl who had barely travelled outside of her home country, leaving the security of family life for an uncertain adventure to follow her dream and in doing so discovered a world of opportunity through an experience that she could barely have imagined just a short time ago.