Anissa Rawda Najjar (Arabic: أنيسة روضة نجار; June 26, 1913 – January 14, 2016) was a Lebanese feminist and women's rights activist.
She was a co-founder and longtime leader of the Village Welfare Society (Jam`iyat In`ash Al-Qarya).
In 1953 she and Evelyne Bustros founded the Village Welfare Society, to advance literacy and economic opportunities for rural women in Lebanon.
She created a certificate, the "Rural Brevet", as an incentive for women to attend her the society's practical workshops on literacy, childcare, nutrition, hygiene, and agriculture; the program soon expanded to include some content on broader topics such as literature, politics, music, and religion.
[3] Outside of Lebanon, for five years during World War II, she was principal of two girls' schools in Iraq.