Wamda

Regional

Teaching coding to young refugees will generate job opportunities to thousands

There are almost 5.5 million registered Syrian refugees in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon, according to figures published by the United...

Coding teaching ngos

Jordan

Partnerships between Jordan’s Central Bank and the private sector are integral to financial inclusion

The Central Bank of Jordan has made financial inclusion a priority and is working with the Jordanian private sector to expand financial...

Jordan central bank of jordan Private sector

Regional

Innovate For Refugees 2017 [Call for Applications]

MITEF Enterprise Forum Pan Arab's Innovate for Refugees is designed to attract the best tech-driven solutions addressing the...

refugees syria Innovate for Refugees

Lebanon

How this Lebanese startup is innovating refugee humanitarian assistance

Innovation in the humanitarian sector is a growing and important source of support for at-risk groups of people around the world. It served...

KwikSense UNH Humanitarian Aid

Regional

Tarjama accomplished its Coursera for Refugees Arabization mission

Tarjama, a UAE-based translation startup, finished its six-month project with Coursera to Arabize courses specifically targeted at...

Tarjama Coursera refugees

Jordan

In Jordan, technology is serving refugees

Rana Kelani is an Iraqi refugee who arrived in Jordan four years ago. In the last year, she has learned how to code, found work and started...

refugees app WATER

Lebanon

Innovate Education

Innovate Education is a 3-day social entrepreneurship competition. In this competition, Lebanese and Syrian university students will...

Education refugees Technology

United States

3D printed hope: new limbs for Syrian refugees

When Ibrahim Mohammad started selling juice in the streets of Lebanon at the age 12 to support his family, he made $0.5 a day. Back then,...

hult prize Ibrahim Mohammad Omar Soufan

Jordan

Tarjama bridges language gap

Medieval Arabic translations preserved the cultural heritage of ancient Greece and Rome. Today the same knowledge transfer continues and...

Joran uae Tarjama

Jordan

2017 NLG EdTech Summit

The 2017 NLG Edtech Summit is a forum where edtech innovations and projects from the region that support children most impacted by the...

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Turkey

Kiron, educational hope for refugees

The UN refugee agency says that as of 2015 there are 65.3 million individuals that have been forcibly displaced worldwide, most with little...

Kiron higher education refugees

Egypt

Real-time translation for Europe bound refugees and migrants [Wamda TV]

Refugees and migrants from eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia have been making their way to European Union countries for many years,...

ET Call refugees Egypt

Global

Natakallam gives Syrian refugees both a voice and an income

Several times this summer, Andrew Haas sat at his laptop at 9 am in his Seattle apartment dialing the same number on Skype. On the other...

Natakallam syria refugees

Jordan

Rebootkamp's first wave of refugee coders in Jordan

After fleeing from war torn Taiz, Yemen six months ago, Rwaida Almehanni found herself feeling aimless in Jordan. The 27-year-old wanted to...

Rebootkamp Jordan refugees

Syria

10 tech ideas to prevent a lost Syrian generation

“Between two million and three million Syrian children are not attending school. The UN children’s agency says the...

Social Entrepreneurship syria Education

Lebanon

Kwik emergency response sensor wins refugee hackathon

Fire and freezing cold are potentially fatal for refugees, but they are dangers which could be over due to 'emergency sensor'...

Open Source Action Network UNOCHA UNHCR

Jordan

Altibbi opens Pandora’s box on MENA’s healthcare questions

From a doctor's office, to your PC to your phone - the changing face of medicine. (Image via Jacqueline Sofia) A young mother in Saudi...

digital health MEMakersGE Diabetes Healthcare

Europe

Tech solutions for refugees with Techfugees

As the migrant crisis has spread across Europe consciences have been awoken. What if technology could improve the life of migrants and...

Urban Refugees S'team Management Refugeeks

Regional

Innovative tent for refugees harnesses renewable energy

What the tents, in use, could look like. (Images via Abeer Seikaly) Nearing the half-decade mark, the Syrian Civil War has by modest...

refugees tent abeer seikaly

Syria

Tech can save Syria's refugees [Opinion]

Syrians, no matter their socio-economic standing or refugee status, are far behind their regional and global peers when it comes to...

syria refugees

Regional

MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab's "Innovate for Refugees" Competition

MIT Enterprise Forum Pan-Arab Region is on a mission to #CracktheCrisis by finding and rewarding tech-driven solutions that help alleviate...

refugees MIT

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