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Lina Zdruli
Co-Founder & Director of External Operations
Lina Zdruli is a social entrepreneur and global health strategist. At Universal Limbs, she brings together her experience at the World Bank and United Nations with a passion for humanitarian innovation—designing a trauma-informed, people-first model for delivering free 3D-printed prosthetics.
Whether she’s working with trauma specialists in Canada or navigating approvals in conflict zones, Lina is focused on building a model of care that’s scalable, sustainable, and rooted in compassion.
Before Universal Limbs, Lina founded Dafero in 2018, a social enterprise that employed female refugees and trafficking survivors to produce date spreads. The product reached #1 in Amazon’s spreads category and was sold in stores across North America.
She also worked with the UN Convention to Combat Desertification in Germany, supporting rural communities in shaping policies to reverse land degradation, and in 2017 joined the World Bank’s Fragility, Conflict & Violence Unit in Washington, DC, where she helped develop large-scale programs for refugee and host communities.
Based in Montreal, Lina holds a degree in International Relations from the University of British Columbia and a Master of Arts from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. She believes no one should be defined by what they’ve lost—and that the right support can transform lives.
