ARLINGTON – Walking on the graduation stage is one of life’s happiest moments. It should have been Aminah’s happy moment on Friday.
“We watched her walk, and I shouted at the top of my lungs for her,” said cousin Shahina Ahmed.
On Friday, Aminah Jennifa Ahmed got degrees in biology and business from the University of Texas at Arlington. Family members and friends say she was smart and caring, but that day, she was also hurting.
One project she had started just recently would pay for eye surgeries for the poorest children in South Asia, especially her home country of Bangladesh. Since her death, her family has renamed the project “Aminah Sees.”
On a Go Fund Me page her family set up, more than $20,000 was raised in her honor in a two-day span.
“Nothing comes close to her,” her father said.
This community of faith mourns a very caring, ambitious woman. She was taken on a day that should’ve been her happy moment.
