Peace Runners and friends of the Peace Run were thrilled and greatly honored to welcome Wasfia Nazreen to The Sri Chinmoy Peace Park in San Diego's Normal Heights.

Wasfia is from Bangladesh. She is spending a few weeks in Los Angeles and came to San Diego especially to receive the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run Torch-Bearer Award.

Wasfia is an extremely dynamic and inspirational woman. From an early age she has been passionate about working for humanitarian causes. In 2011, to celebrate 40 years of Bangladeshi independence, Wasfia launched the “Bangladesh on Seven Summits” Campaign. For the campaign she has climbed each of the six of seven continental summits to mark 40 years of women’s progress in Bangladesh.

Wasfia established the Ösel Foundation set to launch later this year. Ösel is a Tibetan word which means "Clarity" or "Luminosity" implying the intrinsic purity that lies within each of us. The foundation is aimed to empower marginalized adolescent girls through an alternative educational curriculum based in the outdoors.

Wasfia is also in the final stages of completing a book about her life so far, and has many great and good goals for the future.