Founder & CEO
Fatima Muhammad Jidda
Fatima began studying in Egypt in 2020. Like most international students, she arrived having worked out a good deal of the process herself — which documents were really needed, which advice was reliable, what nobody had thought to mention.
Other students started asking her how she had done it. She helped them, one at a time, with admission guidance. As the number of people asking grew, that informal help became something more organised, and around 2021 to 2022 she developed it into a study-abroad company.
NIADO Study Abroad grew out of that: students and families who needed a straight answer from somebody who had actually been through the process.
Fatima's personal website: fatimamjidda.com
Founding philosophy
Education guidance should be clear, honest and accessible.
That principle is why this website shows its sources, why it says “we have not confirmed this” rather than guessing, and why every service page states plainly what is not included.
Timeline
- 2020Began studying in Egypt as an international student.
- 2020–2021Started helping other African students with admission guidance, informally at first.
- 2021–2022Developed that work into an organised study-abroad company.
- TodayLeads NIADO Study Abroad as Founder and CEO, and still personally reviews the guidance published on this site.
This page records only what NIADO has confirmed. Photographs, further biography and any professional details will be added when Fatima provides them — we apply the same rule to our own founder's page that we apply to university records.
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Students and parents can reach NIADO directly. We would rather answer a question honestly now than have you act on bad information later.