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Hasnain Ramji was born in 1986 in Birmingham, UK. His father, Mustafa, originally from Tanzania, migrated to the UK in 1977 and his mother, Fatima, from Uganda first migrated to Karachi, Pakistan before marrying and moving to the UK to settle in Birmingham. Hasnain is the second of their two sons.
Hasnain attended The King Edward’s VI School in Birmingham where he achieved top grade results in all ten GCSEs, AS Level and all four A Levels subjects. He also obtained several awards during his time at secondary school including: three Gold UK Mathematics awards. He then went on to study at Optometry at Aston and has currently finished his second year, with the final year remaining.
He has taken part in several extra-curricular activities including the CCF (Combined Cadet Force) Army, where he obtained the rank of sergeant, winning many national military competitions, one such was the Tremlett trophy, a prestigious award given to the top cadets of the country. He was also an avid marksman in his time in the CCF. His other hobby is playing football for the Aston University Optometry team.
Hasnain is an active volunteer at Birmingham Jamaat, where for the past four years he has been assisting in the organisation of English majalis during Muharram and assisted with the general running of functions in Birmingham. He has previously been a mentor at the CoEJ AS Level camp, however this will be his first visit to Sweden, as over the past three summers Hasnain has been attending various courses in Iran where he spent the summers studying in the Hawzas in Qum, and in his latest visit to Iran he spent the time learning Farsi. He has also assisted with the writing of the primary syllabus for Muhammadi Madressah in Birmingham |
