Hello everyone, We’re already nearing the end of this exciting new adventure with Codi Tech. One thing is for sure, I definitely plan on coming back to Lebanon. Before I catch my flight tomorrow morning, here are some fresh updates! Here are the main accomplishments of my mission: 1. Two entrepreneurship workshops in Beirut and…
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Codi Tech, a catalyst for social innovation, inclusion, and employment [Newsletter 2 Lebanon]
Hello everyone, I hope you had a great week! I started my mission last Monday alongside the NGO Codi Tech. Hortense, the organization’s founder, scheduled a meeting with me at exactly 8:45 a.m. to go together to Codi. I have known Hortense for several years, and she is one of those social entrepreneurs who inspire…
Omar, a father, electrician, former soldier, and refugee [Newsletter 1 Lebanon]
Hello everyone, How are you? This year, I am participating for the eighth time in a project focused on impact measurement or digitization alongside an exceptional NGO. At each of these opportunities, I have met inspiring entrepreneurs, activists, and changemakers, whether in the Brazilian favelas, the Ugandan jungle, the northern neighborhoods of Marseille, the slums…
The challenges of our mission in Guatemala [Newsletter 3 Guatemala]
Hi everyone, How are you doing? Marine and Quentin returned to Paris at the end of the week, while Sarah and I stayed a few more days to finish our deliverables for the NGO Los Amigos de Santa Cruz. This week again, great news to share. 🙂 #The challenges of our mission In order to…
Our mission – From Data Collection to Analysis [Newsletter 2 Guatemala]
Hi everybody, How are you doing? On our side, the weeks go by quickly. We joined the Los Amigos de Santa Cruz teams two weeks ago already. Since Sarah arrived on Wednesday to strengthen the team, we now have various projects underway that will have to be delivered before we leave! Let’s start with a…
Our arrival in Guatemala facing the Volcanoes [Newsletter 1 Guatemala]
Hi everybody, How are you doing ? On our side, we are really excited! 🙂 Thanks to the advice of Brooke, one of my colleagues who lived in Guatemala, we left with my sister Marine and my brother Quentin for new adventures with the NGO Los Amigos de Santa Cruz located on the shores of…
Hortense Launched A Coding Bootcamp in Beirut To Support Marginalized Youth and Refugees
Since childhood, Hortense has had a profound sense of social justice, especially when talented people cannot realize their full potential. Against the odds, Hortense quit a promising career at BCG to launch Codi, a free programming apprenticeship based in Beirut. Their mission is to use coding and digital skills to enable inclusion and employment, and…
Loubna is Fighting for Inclusion by Enabling Every Woman to Live from Her Cooking Talents
✋Nowadays, inclusion is one of the main challenges in France🇨🇵. Many people from different social backgrounds, countries 🌍and religions do not know 🗣️each other, which often leads to misunderstandings. Back in 2017, Loubna and her two co-founders found an impactful solution💡 that could be turned into a business🚀: Meet My Mama. It is an online…
At GoJob, Sylvain Leverages a Temporary Worker Marketplace as a Powerful Inclusion Tool for Jobless Persons
Have you ever heard of the startup GoJob? GoJob is a leading marketplace for temporary workers. They offer temporary assignments to a pool of 50,000 temporary workers throughout France. Their mission is clear: offer a job with a decent living wage, social benefits and a real opportunity to progress to anyone who wants to work, whatever…
Frederic Is Leading A Team of 600 Water Entrepreneurs In Cambodia
👋We had the chance 🍀to cross paths🚶 with Frédéric Dubois 👨, who leads a team of 600 water 💦entrepreneurs🚀. In rural areas⛏️, water contamination is the leading cause of disease🤒 and death ☠️. Does the association 1001 fontaines ring a bell?📣 An exciting 😃adventure around access to drinking water 💦in rural areas! They build👷♂️ turnkey water kiosks, which…
Rithy Ambitions To Create An Eco-Community To Protect 100 000 Hectares From Deforestation
👋At 17 years old, Rithy Thul👦 had lost almost everything 🙇… However, he is an entrepreneur at heart♥️ and a fighter⚔️! Now in his thirties, he is a central 🎯figure of the Cambodian🇰🇭 startup ecosystem, with a company producing state-of-the-art computers💻 combining power 🌀and accessibility🔓, the first co-working 🏢space launched in Cambodia, and the status of the country’s most active…
Friends International Is Convinced About The Benefits Of Tech and Aims At Being Fully Digitalized
👋After completing our mission 🚀at Friends International, which was to support 🤝the identification and implementation of a recruitment platform to ensure the matching 🔥/ tracking🔎 of hundreds of beneficiaries👦👧, we shared our report📄. We recommended the implementation of two integrated solutions🖥️: Oscar and Salesforce. What we really appreciated was their genuine desire to digitalize all their programs. We had interesting conversations about…
Digitalization As A Powerful Tool To Make NGO’s Operations More Efficient
👋Convincing a donor to🌠 support an 👨🏫educational program is much more concrete and attractive 🧲than asking them to finance 💰office rent or IT 💻software, which are just as important. Many NGOs are therefore forced to under-staff or✂️ cut certain key expenses, particularly administrative ones. To our knowledge, 3 levers can help cover these costs: 1)…
Moussa Trains the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs To Fight For Social Integration
✌️In sensitive 💥urban areas in France🇨🇵, the unemployment rate is twice📈 the national average. For Moussa, economic integration is the cornerstone of social success🚀. In 2015, Moussa launched Les Déterminés, a mission-driven🌠 NGO🌠 that supports entrepreneurs from sensitive💥 urban and rural areas. Self-taught👨🏫 and resolutely audacious, Moussa started his career as an entrepreneur in the…
Enkhjin, CEO of GerHub – Innovation to Fight the Most Pressing Issues of the Ger Areas in Mongolia
👋Did you know that every year hundreds of children 👶die ☠️in the Ger areas due to pollution🌫️ & sanitation 🚽issues? GerHub is a non-profit social enterprise that uses innovation 🚀to support local communities in the Ger areas. Their main projects focus on researching🔎 and developing affordable ways to modify and modernize the Mongolian ger 🏠…
Mesut Is Disrupting The Scholarship System With a Cutting Edge Technology Platform in Turkey
👋Did you know that in Turkey🇹🇷, 40% of young graduates 👨🎓👩🎓are unemployed? Many promising students work hard ⚒️to make sure they can get a job 👨💼👩💼after graduation. However, being accepted into a top Turkish 🇹🇷or international🌍 university is not enough. They need to pay💰 the tuition fees, and many of them cannot afford it😟. Every…
Aleksandar Co-Founded the Largest Bulgarian Media For Positive and Inspiring News
👉Who is fed up with reading news🗞️ every morning 🥐about violence💥, sex 🔞 and drugs 💊across the world🌍? Personally, I am!😐 Especially when I know that so many inspiring known & unknown leaders are fighting⚔️ to make the world🌐 a better place! In Bulgaria 🇧🇬, I spent an evening🍺 with Aleksandar, the 🚀co-founder of Uspelite🚀,…
Paul Duan — Data Science Genius Fighting against unemployment
Hi Everyone👋, I had the chance to meet with Paul Duan👨, the inspiring founder of Bayes Impact, the Y Combinator-backed NGO which builds citizen-led public services to create a fairer and inclusive future for our societies. By leveraging data science 💻, they achieved outstanding impacts: 800 police agencies 👮use their tool to reduce violence 💥…
Andi Develops 3.0 coding classes to train people for the new economy
Hi Everyone, Most developers and tech guys in Romania live in Cluj-Napoca, which is also called the Silicon Valley of Romania. Willing to better understand the ecosystem, I met Andi, a young and ambitious full stack developer 💻. A few months before, he had quit his well-paid job to join Carmel as a co-founder 🚀….