Dr Rana Ahmed Hameed has bagged Young Entrepreneur of the Year

Dr Rana Ahmed Hameed has bagged Young Entrepreneur of the Year

• November 18, 2021

Dr. Rana Ahmed Hameed is the co-founder, coach and the instructor of “Get Fit with Rann '' a gym establishment especially for women. She takes personal training and Group Fitness classes and is a specialist & certificated instructor in Nirvana, Bump & Beyond-Training and Pregnant & Postpartum Clients and puts a serious commitment to research and training of other instructors as well. She conducts classes online, face to face, outdoor and aqua classes and counseling sessions and meal plans are custom made to client’s needs.  She started this journey officially in 2018 with a stronghold on the social media platforms including Instagram, Facebook page, Facebook group, Viber and Telegram group connecting over 4000 clients at one click. As for her specialized area in training, she is a bump and beyond instructor training pregnant and postpartum clients since 13 October 2018. When she first started with this, she was the first one to introduce training specialized for pregnant and postpartum clients in Maldives at a standardized level.

In addition to her passion for fitness and health, Dr. Rana Ahmed Hameed has a Doctorate in Business Administration at the age of 27 years. She is also a lecturer in Maldives National University, researcher & a civil servant. She is a multi-talented hard working youth. Who has achieved lots of milestones at such a young age. She is keen on achieving the Women Icon Award in the category of “The Young Entrepreneur”. This will be a life changing award for her as it will increase the credibility of the work she does and in turn give more exposure to the international platforms. 

It has always been her dream to make her parents proud. This would be one of the happiest moments for her and for her whole family. Even though Dr.Rana did her Cambridge General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level (GCE O-Level) in science, she wanted to pursue her career in the area of public relations. Eventually she did her foundation on mass communication and completed her Bachelor of Arts (hons) in Professional Communication Majored in Public Relations from Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, Malaysia. In addition to this, she completed her postgraduate in Business Administration from Villa College, Maldives. With her keen interest in pursuing furthermore in academics, she then continued to finish her Doctorate in Business Administration from Mantissa College, Malaysia. This was a Switzerland course. She has done research and done publications too. One of her publications is on to examine the factors influencing tourist intention to revisit to the Maldives with the use of social media marketing as the moderating influence. Link for the journal https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3706547

Currently she is working with Villa College, Institute for research and innovation, the largest research institute in Maldives, the project is a World health Organization (WHO) initiative and she is providing the consultancy services and conducting a nationwide research on assessment on the situation and experience of the elderly in the Maldives. She has done numerous training and courses within this period in order to increase her knowledge in diversified areas. This diversity into different areas of knowledge and constant research and training has led to her academic field too. 

Refocusing into her career, although “Get Fit with Rann '' started officially in 2018, she has been taking exercise classes for friends and family way before. Within the past years she has conducted classes to more than 2000 clients and the targeted demographic for the “Get Fit With Rann” gym has been women.  However Dr. Rana has also conducted classes for men as well as children. Currently, the classes are conducted with 5 assistant instructors along with Dr.Rana. 

At the age of 16, she has a passion for the environment and issues relevant to the environment and started working in the field of environment. Ever since then she has been working for the ministry of environment climate change and Technology for the past 8 years and currently she is the Assistant Director of Administration section for the Corporate Department of the ministry. She was the Vice President of the Fehifahi club in the ministry for 2 years. 

Although she started working as a civil servant on 8th October 2013, she had also worked in Villa Television as a host, Haveeru media, HFM 92.6 as a presenter, producer, and radio jockey. She has also modeled for various advertisements, such as advertisements by the largest companies in the Maldives like the Bank of Maldives, Limkokwing University, Ministry of Environment Climate Change and Technology. Prior to that she had an internship with the Voyages Maldives which is a one of the largest travel agencies in the Maldives and worked as a Reservation Officer, and addition she has worked in the photography industry as a photographer in the “Portrait album” too. 

With all the commitment to her career she also makes time for volunteer work including fundraising events for people in need. Some of her major works as a volunteer includes a fundraising event conducted by her under the name “Help Haish '', where she raised more than MVR 200,000 within 3 days. She also helped to raise funds for a baby with primary hyperoxaluria type 1. 

Some of the projects she worked in areas related to health and fitness are: 

• Featured interview on the sun online news and also on sun.mv YouTube channel on her career, business and academics.

        https://sun.mv/121611 https://fb.watch/4uWSZ73w16/ (Dated: 12th July 2019) 

• Project with Sun online media “Get Fit with Ran” made Furabandhu (Lockdown) program with Sun online media in the

        Covid pandemic duration.

• During the covid -19 pandemic, she aired online exercise videos to the public. The details are below: 

• Episode 1 of Furabandhu: pelvic floor exercise 31 May 2020  https://sun.mv/137627 

• Episode 2 of Furabandhu: Exercise when pregnant and after birth 09 June 2020 https://sun.mv/138060

• Episode 3 of Furabandhu: Exercises with a stability ball 19 July 2020  https://sun.mv/140008

• Episode 4 of Furabandhu: Exercise for hand and back muscles special 8 August 2020 https://sun.mv/141160

• Episode 5 of Furabandhu: Convenient exercises at home 19 August 2020 https://sun.mv/141589 

• Episode 6 of Furabandhu: After birth exercises 6th Sept 2020 https://sun.mv/142641

• Episode 7 of Furabandhu: After C-section exercises 13 September 2020 https://fb.watch/4uWQpNSTLb/ 

• Episode 8 of Furabandhu : Relief exercises when pregnant backbone muscles 26 September 2020

        https://sun.mv/142960?fbclid=IwAR1mRTRLgA8lbriY5m4DHqJEKIRrxGEpeW4woW16Nzh9Qr4PNQUwQFUnuHA 

• Episode 9 of Furabandhu : Exercises for back muscles  https://fb.watch/4uWZPi6YwZ/ 

Affiliated project with the “Women Centre By Yulia” for 6 months from February 2018 to July 2018. She took daily exercising classes for women. She supported the women who wanted help physically and mentally. Project with Kendhikulhudhoo Island council: Dr.Rana conducted an awareness program for the women in Kedhikolhudhoo island during 2018. The sessions covered pelvic floor exercise, exercises specialized for pregnancy and after birth and C section, exercises with stability ball, exercises specially for hand and back muscles, exercises convenient to do at home and relief exercises that can be done after birth for people with backbone issues. Participants of these sessions were awarded with certificates of participation.  

Video clips of Dr. Rana for reference: 

• “Bigadi '' program aired on CNM Channel: She hosted the Eid (cultural festivity) special show to the public.

 In this program she also portrayed some exercises that can be done at home without equipment.

https://web.facebook.com/cnm.mv/videos/285441022555848/

• “Aslu viyafaari verin” (Real Entrepreneurs program):

She got the opportunity from National Television Maldives Programme named “True Entrepreneur” and was interviewed regarding her career and booming business. 

      https://www.facebook.com/746903452316183/posts/1546379542368566/?d=n

• She got invited as a guest to the Coca Cola Lucky Draw show.

      https://www.facebook.com/RaajjeTelevision/videos/167412738875058/

Dr. Rana is very much keen and looking forward to receiving the Women Icon Award for Women Entrepreneur of the Year. She sends her appreciation to the organizing and selection committee powered by Times Women and World Women Council (WWC) for recognizing the awarding of this honor to her. She is thankful for Women Icon for having such a strong, supportive and motivating award function for all the women out there who work to strive hard.  

She praises Allah S.W.T almighty for the good health and strength to become the person she is today. She is a true inspiration to everyone. She would also like to take a moment to thank her parents, husband, daughter, family, friends, staff and also to the clients who trusted and believed in her. It is her belief that in order to become a successful person working smart is as much of an importance as working hard.