“I had to prove that and open those doors for the community,” she said.

Ms Molik has been a councillor since 2017.

“Having two young girls, I did want the world to be different for them when they come to that stage,” she added.

The councillor arrived to Cardiff from Bangladesh with her family in the 1980s at the age of six, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

As a “very chatty” young girl, moving to a country where she did not know the language was a daunting experience for her.

Throughout her life she said she has had to overcome a number of hurdles in educational and professional settings.