Safia Trabelsi is the Founding Manager of Nile River Montessori and has always had a strong belief that high quality education is the hope for our future societies and the world. She took her first AMI Montessori training for children 3-6 years old before she launches the first AMI Montessori school in Egypt in 2018; She also has the 0-3 AMI Montessori Certificate. Currently Safia is pursuing her 6-12 AMI Montessori Diploma.

Prior to that Trabelsi has a long career working in international development and right to people in different organisations such as the UN Women, League of Arab States and International Planned Parenthood Federation where she worked on refugees and internally displaced people. Safia is a recipient of The Fulbright grant for foreign students and obtained her Master’s in Coexistence and Conflicts from Brandeis University, Boston, and Massachusetts and worked for the Harvard’s Ash Centre for Democratic Governance and Innovation.

Today, she focusing her career to support early childhood in Egypt at local and national level. She already supported few preschools in remote villages in upper Egypt to provide Centre child education based on understanding the nature of the children, inspired from Montessori approach.