Saida Belaatel
Saida came to Cape Town in January 2020 to join Roots. She was born in Hamburg, Germany but has lived in Groningen, the Netherlands to study International Communication for the last few years. Just before moving to Cape Town, she spent a semester abroad in Ghana to study African Studies at the University of Cape Coast. Saida is passionate about languages, photography, human rights, and sustainability, and wants to work as a journalist in the future. She believes that communication, specifically writing, is a powerful tool to connect and educate people in order to achieve social change.