Youth Of Mount Lebanon Start Up New Businesses
“Our idea project ‘Hummus Cups’ has the potential to go global. Our group is aiming high and the Youth Entrepreneurs’ project has offered great support. Now that we won the competition, we will buy the needed equipment and hire the essential staff in order to launch our business,” said 29-year-old Samer Sfeir
LEBANON
VOICE & Accountability For Syrian Women & Men Project (2015)
Breaking the wall of silence, prejudices, and fear among refugee communities in Lebanon cannot be achieved without tackling comprehensively their root-causes. The more the war in Syria is lasting, the more it becomes urgent to increase and enhance the existing structures that strengthen social cohesion in the country.
LEBANON
Syrian Refugees Opportunities Towards Resilience. Business Coaching Teaching About “Market Strategy, Self-Confidence And Life
With Relief International and RDPP, Abdul Rahman, a Syrian refugee in Kurdistan, Iraq, looks to learn new business skills in order to join the workforce and open a dairy shop. Relief International (RI) through the RDPP funded Syrian Refugees' Opportunities towards Resilience (SROR) program aims to increase socio-economic resilience of Syrian refugees, IDPs...
IRAQ
Bader (Right) Smiles With A Friend At A Job Site Where He His Business Has Been Contracted.
Bader, 42, is a successful business-owner who, like Astera, fled northern Syria with his family in October 2011. “We came to Erbil seeking refuge but had nothing, and so I started with any work that was available,” he said. Bader lost a stable job a year ago and wondered how he would provide for his family, which includes two sick daughters.
IRAQ
Creating Job Opportunities For Young Adults In Kurdistan
Action Against Hunger / Action Contre la Faim and the European Regional Development and Protection Programme for the Middle East (RDPP), within the project “Creating Job Opportunities for Young Adults in Kurdistan”, organized the Graduation Ceremony of trainees and apprentices in the city of Zakho, Dohuk Governorate in Iraq, on Wednesday 27th of June.
IRAQ
Legal Assistance To Vulnerable Persons In The Context Of The War In Syria
The programme titled « Legal assistance to vulnerable persons in the context of the war in Syria” is funded by the European Regional Development and Protection Programme (RDPP) for Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, which is supported by Czech Republic, Denmark, European Commission (DEVCO), Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, and United Kingdom...
LEBANON
Exchanging More Than Knowledge
Al-Zeina, Maha, Islam and Hanadi are four ladies who have met through UNDP’s Skills Exchange project in Al-Mafraq governorate which is funded by the European Regional Development and Protection Programme (RDPP) and soon became close friends. Their friendship; fuelled by knowledge-sharing and personal interactions has paved the way for a promising business partnership between them.
JORDAN
Astera Sits Behind A Sewing Machine At Her Business, Sima, Where She Tailors And Embroiders Clothing.
Astera, 32, and her family fled fighting in Aleppo in April 2013and sought refuge in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. “We were forced to leave because of military operations and we came to Erbil seeking refuge,” she said. Astera added that life was good in Syria before the war as she, her father, and brothers all had good jobs that provided for the family.
IRAQ
Cash Intervention Provides Livelihood Opportunities And School Rehabilitation
My school has never looked this good,” said Karwan, the young headmaster of the Hema School in Iraqi Kurdistan’s northernmost province of Duhok. “In the past, we used to flee to Duhok every time there was an attack from Mosul on the Kurds here,” explained Karwan, who grew up going to the Hema School.
IRAQ
Youth Of Mount Lebanon Start Up New Businesses
“Our idea project ‘Hummus Cups’ has the potential to go global. Our group is aiming high and the Youth Entrepreneurs’ project has offered great support. Now that we won the competition, we will buy the needed equipment and hire the essential staff in order to launch our business,” said 29-year-old Samer Sfeir
LEBANON
VOICE & Accountability For Syrian Women & Men Project (2015)
Breaking the wall of silence, prejudices, and fear among refugee communities in Lebanon cannot be achieved without tackling comprehensively their root-causes. The more the war in Syria is lasting, the more it becomes urgent to increase and enhance the existing structures that strengthen social cohesion in the country.
LEBANON
Legal Assistance To Vulnerable Persons In The Context Of The War In Syria
The programme titled « Legal assistance to vulnerable persons in the context of the war in Syria” is funded by the European Regional Development and Protection Programme (RDPP) for Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq, which is supported by Czech Republic, Denmark, European Commission (DEVCO), Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, and United Kingdom...
LEBANON
Exchanging More Than Knowledge
Al-Zeina, Maha, Islam and Hanadi are four ladies who have met through UNDP’s Skills Exchange project in Al-Mafraq governorate which is funded by the European Regional Development and Protection Programme (RDPP) and soon became close friends. Their friendship; fuelled by knowledge-sharing and personal interactions has paved the way for a promising business partnership between them.
JORDAN
Syrian Refugees Opportunities Towards Resilience. Business Coaching Teaching About “Market Strategy, Self-Confidence And Life
With Relief International and RDPP, Abdul Rahman, a Syrian refugee in Kurdistan, Iraq, looks to learn new business skills in order to join the workforce and open a dairy shop. Relief International (RI) through the RDPP funded Syrian Refugees' Opportunities towards Resilience (SROR) program aims to increase socio-economic resilience of Syrian refugees, IDPs...
IRAQ
Bader (Right) Smiles With A Friend At A Job Site Where He His Business Has Been Contracted.
Bader, 42, is a successful business-owner who, like Astera, fled northern Syria with his family in October 2011. “We came to Erbil seeking refuge but had nothing, and so I started with any work that was available,” he said. Bader lost a stable job a year ago and wondered how he would provide for his family, which includes two sick daughters.
IRAQ
Creating Job Opportunities For Young Adults In Kurdistan
Action Against Hunger / Action Contre la Faim and the European Regional Development and Protection Programme for the Middle East (RDPP), within the project “Creating Job Opportunities for Young Adults in Kurdistan”, organized the Graduation Ceremony of trainees and apprentices in the city of Zakho, Dohuk Governorate in Iraq, on Wednesday 27th of June.
IRAQ
Astera Sits Behind A Sewing Machine At Her Business, Sima, Where She Tailors And Embroiders Clothing.
Astera, 32, and her family fled fighting in Aleppo in April 2013and sought refuge in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. “We were forced to leave because of military operations and we came to Erbil seeking refuge,” she said. Astera added that life was good in Syria before the war as she, her father, and brothers all had good jobs that provided for the family.
IRAQ
Cash Intervention Provides Livelihood Opportunities And School Rehabilitation
My school has never looked this good,” said Karwan, the young headmaster of the Hema School in Iraqi Kurdistan’s northernmost province of Duhok. “In the past, we used to flee to Duhok every time there was an attack from Mosul on the Kurds here,” explained Karwan, who grew up going to the Hema School.
IRAQ
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