✌️As you know, I travelled 🌏this summer🌞 to Cambodia 🇰🇭for a full immersion with Friends International, a leading social enterprise🚀 saving😀 lives and building⚒️ futures for the most marginalized children 👦👧in Southeast Asia. Their secret sauce is brilliant🌟: they build social enterprises to teach 👨🏫young people practical & soft skills in promising industries🍴💇♂️, before helping them find a job 💼across the country.
Friends International created multiple social enterprises: garages🏍️, restaurants🍴, hairdressers💇♂️, electrical services🌟, beauty salons❇️, apparel shops👚… They were a real success🌟 with the expat community. However, Friends International’s mission🚀 went further. They wanted to involve every stakeholder in their adventure, including locals. To meet their goals🎯, they had to create a customer experience equivalent to that of regular shopping🛍️ centers.
They took up the challenge and opened🔓 the Futures Factory 🛍️, a melting pot of creativity🖍️, social enterprise🚀 and community collaboration👋. Customers can find all the Friends International shops, services and restaurants 🍴, as well as traditional cafés☕ and eco-friendly, socially responsible shops🏪. The experience is stunning! 👍Families can enjoy concerts, activities and shopping while, at the same time, young people from the most marginalized communities are trained for promising jobs😀.
🌟🌟🌟At Our Own Pace And Scale, Everyone Can Aspire To Change The World🌟🌟🌟
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The Futures Factory, an NGO Led Shopping Center For Social Enterprises in Cambodia
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Sofiane Leverages Theatrical Improvisation at the Olympia to Empower Disadvantaged Youth
👋Have you already been on stage at the Olympia🎫? Sofiane did better than that. Last year, he brought a whole team of young artists💃 from Sport dans la Ville for a theatrical improvisation on stage at the Olympia in front of 2000 spectators. 😎✌️
With Sofiane, we met on the side of a football⚽ training of Sport dans la ville, 🌠an impactful NGO🌠 fighting for social & professional integration through Sport. After a school 👨🏫path in Trappes & a diploma in accountability, he discovered the challenges to start a career without network 📡and mentors👦. After several jobs in restauration, banking and insurance, he decided to get a fresh start with a purpose driven mission 🚀in the social sector. 3 years ago, he joined Sport dans la Ville as Insertion Manager. Sofiane currently ensures a personalized coaching for 90 young disadvantaged teenagers living in the suburbs of Saint Denis.😀 ✌️
👉One of the key factors of success for Sofiane was his passion♥️ for theatrical improvisation which enabled him to adapt himself to every situation. Today, he dedicates tremendous efforts 💪to enable young people to become chameleons capable of adapting, expressing and behaving themselves differently based on their environment.
🌠🌠🌠 “At our own pace and scale, everyone can aspire to change the world”🌠🌠🌠
Entrainement sport dans la ville Sofiane
