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Zerbanoo Gifford is a British writer and human rights campaigner of Indian origin.:124 She is honorary director of the ASHA Foundation, which she founded.:125
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- 6th world zoroastrian youth congress legacy session 1 special guest speaker zerbanoo gifford
- Charitable work
- Politics
- Recognition
- Publications
- References
Gifford was brought from India to Britain by her parents when she was three. She was educated at Roedean School, at Watford College of Technology, at the London School of Journalism and at the Open University. Her first book, The Golden Thread, was published in 1990.:124
Charitable work
Gifford has been active in charitable work. She has been a director of Anti-Slavery International and of the Charities Aid Foundation.:125 She is founder of the ASHA Foundation and the ASHA Centre in the Forest of Dean.
Politics
In the 1980s Gifford was elected a councillor for Harrow,:378 the first female Asian councillor to be elected for the Liberal Party.:125 She has stood three times for Parliament.:125 In 1986 she chaired the Liberal "Commission of Inquiry into Ethnic Minority Involvement in the Liberal Party".:125 She was a member of the Race Relations Forum set up in 1998 by the Home Secretary.
Recognition
Gifford received the Nehru Centenary Award in 1989. She was nominated for the Women of Europe Award in 1991.:125 A biography of her by Farida Master, Zerbanoo Gifford: An Uncensored Life, was published in 2015.
Publications
Gifford's written works include: