Love your country: Recycle! Lebanese app makes recycling easy and accessible
Finding new solutions to long lasting challenges can sometimes spark drastic changes in society, as a young Lebanese entrepreneur demonstrated through his recycling mobile application “Live, Love, Recycle”. Supported by various European Union funded programmes, George Bitar has become a trailblazer…
Accessibility despite COVID-19: Syrian student beats the odds for inclusion
A brilliant student who graduated from an Educational Science degree at Zarqa University with a 92.7% GPA, Su’ad Nabulsi’s intelligence is only rivaled by her empathy and care for others.
“On your bike!”: Egyptian women cycle on the winds of change
Using their daily commute to defy societal norms and express their right to freedom, a group of Egyptian women has triggered the wheel of change in their communities, as part of the nationwide online campaign “Better by Bike”. Launched by the “Tabdeel” initiative (which means both “Pedaling” and “…
Syrian students put COVID-19 advice at mobile users’ fingertips
Connected to their computers with their headphones plugged in day and night, Ahmad Talal Almhaimad, Mohammad Alwahabi & Yousef Madnou have been working together relentlessly since the COVID-19 pandemic reached Jordan. Instead of being discouraged by the challenging situation, the three Syrian…
Bringing healthcare to all: young Jordanian offers free medical aid to village during COVID-19
Ayaat Nouaisah, a young nursing student, has come up with an innovative idea to ease COVID-19-related challenges for her remote village and bring solace to her local community.
Benghazi schools at the fingertips of parents through innovative app
When a society loses all its bearing due to an unprecedented global pandemic, the best solution remains to resort to individuals’ inventiveness and determination. A group of young Libyan entrepreneurs has responded to this challenge, by creating an innovative educational app bridging the gap…
Solidarity in the blood: Syrian refugee student triggers change in community
When confronted with daring situations, many people tend to fall into despair, indulging in self-pity over their own hardship. This was not the case for Osama Ahmad, a young Syrian refugee who recently graduated from his bachelor degree in Amman, after fleeing Syria eight years ago. Witnessing the…
Takwin wa Tamkin: Women in the Amour mountain range are weaving their own future
Part of the European Union Pilot Action Programme for Rural Development and Agriculture in Algeria (PAP-ENPARD), the Takwin wa Tamkin (training and empowerment) project has helped strengthen networks of rural craftswomen. For two years, experts from Res’Art, a project by the association Femmes en…
Hijra wa Himaya: working in the best interests of child migrants in Morocco
Mamadou, Hamza, Anna, Myriam… They are just a few of the many children and young people from Sub-Saharan Africa who find themselves in extremely vulnerable situations in Morocco each year. After perilous journeys to escape their home countries, they find themselves in a country they know nothing,…
Healing amidst the war: Women-led CSOs step up for Libya’s GBV survivors
In the midst of a global pandemic, under-reported crimes often become further obscured, leaving victims in a state of helplessness and disarray. In Libya, where the plague of conflict related sexual violence (CRSV) has been affecting a worrying number of girls and women, local organisations have…