Business
2011 Recipient – Ms. Fatima Dhanani
Fatima Dhanani’s success story as an immigrant businesswoman is as eloquent as is her personal narrative. Today, the Tanzanian native runs a multi-million dollar real estate business in Calgary and leads a land development, construction and property management team that develops and maintains commercial properties and residential sub divisions. But once upon a time she was a 16 year old Dar es Salaam school girl who had lost her father and had to forgo post secondary education to help her mother support the family. Four years later, she met and married Haider Dhanani. In 1972, the Dhananis moved to Canada with their 2 year old daughter, Saifa, initially living in Vancouver before settling in Calgary in 1976, where their son, Aleem, was born.
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