Always motivated and dedicated to leading the development of solutions to assist vulnerable and underprivileged community members, Mariyam Huda learned about volunteer opportunities through the Sigma website and there was no second thought about it. She has found that there is no single learning with Sigma. “You learn every day, and you learn something new and wonderful about nursing and nurses across the world as many times as you log in, and that's the beauty of being part of Sigma.”

Mariyam currently serves as a Mentor in Sigma’s Mentoring Cohort and as a Community Ambassador on The Circle, facilitating conversations in the Hospice and Palliative Care Community and the Nurse Educator Community. These volunteer opportunities have allowed her to connect with other nurse leaders and better understand nursing from different perspectives. Insights have been gathered from conversations about the many nursing roles that she does not have in her country as well as opportunities to empathize with others on the global crisis of the nursing staff shortage.

Her favorite experience so far has been being able to share her experiences and represent the Maldives by authoring an article for Nursing Centered. “Sharing the challenges faced by Maldives inaccessibility of healthcare due to its geographical distribution and how telemedicine would be the best possible solution (especially at the peak of pandemic) was an opportunity I will cherish forever.”