Hannah Sabbagh Shakir (1895-1990) was a Lebanese-American businesswoman who co-founded the Lebanese-Syrian Ladies' Aid Society of Boston with 13 other Syrian women, including; Adele Ashook, Adelle Shayab, Rose Handy, Sady Besharra and others.

[1] She was born in 1895 in Ain el Rwmmaneh, a small village in the mountains of Lebanon, then in the Ottoman Empire to George Sabbagh and Marion Ashook.

[1] On November 13, 1917, Hannah Sabbagh Shakir and 12 other immigrant women from St. George's Orthodox Church formed a group called the Society for the Relief of Syria and Lebanon.

The original aim was to provide aid to people in their homeland who were suffering from hunger, terror, and disease in the wake of World War I.

)[3] To raise funds, the women put collection boxes in local stores, sold and raffled off their own handmade lace and embroidery, and organized dances, rummage sales, plays, picnics, and other activities.

With the proceeds, they supplied poor families with milk, coal, and other aid, such as a pair of eyeglasses for a young girl.

[5] In addition to fundraising, the women visited the sick in hospitals, marched in parades, and hosted prominent speakers such as Abraham Mitrie Rihbany and Kahlil Gibran.

Following the stock market crash of 1929, the Society served as an informal employment agency and provided financial aid to the families of the unemployed.