This month, Jusoor was awarded the Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice. We also marked the tenth anniversary of our Entrepreneurship Program in an event that also wrapped up our Disruptors Project. We have continued providing online education in Lebanon as we monitored the situation closely.
Jusoor Receives Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice
With great pleasure, we received the Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice under the theme “Humanity in Action” from The Harmony Foundation. This award, presented in Mumbai, India, recognizes Jusoor’s commitment to empowering children and youth in the region through education. We are honored to join the list of notable recipients of the award, including Nobel Laureates, global organizations, and exceptional individuals such as H.H Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, H.H. The Dalai Lama, Ms. Narges Mohammadi, the International Committee of the Red Cross, UNHCR, SPARK, and the Danish Refugee Council, to name a few. Thank you to our community & supporters who believe in the power of education to transform lives!
Disruptors Demo Day & 10th Anniversary of Entrepreneurship at Jusoor
Our latest Entrepreneurship Program project ‘Disruptors: Nurturing Tech Startups’ has reached its final milestone on Tuesday, November 19, in Amman, Jorda,n with a Demo Day featuring pitches by six finalist startups to a panel of judges, business experts, and investors. The event ‘Scaling Opportunities: 10 Years of Disruption’ also marked the tenth anniversary of the launch of Jusoor’s Entrepreneurship Program, which in its ten years has supported more than 800 startups and 2,400 entrepreneurs across diverse sectors, invested more than $2 million in funding and resources, delivered hundreds of hours of training and more than 3,000 hours of one-on-one expert sessions, equipping entrepreneurs with the tools and confidence to succeed.
Continuing Online Education for our Young Learners in Lebanon
We continued to closely monitor the situation in Lebanon this month. As our centers continued to be closed, we managed to successfully provide online education to over 1,000 of our refugee education centers’ children, ensuring their education was intact during the crisis, thanks to the generous support we got through our Himam campaign. We have now closed the campaign, as the Ministry of Education in Lebanon has slowly started reopening schools, and now with the ceasefire deal, we expect schools and our centers to be open by next semester. We have also redesigned our Future Skills Project, generously supported by Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund, to take place entirely online through various mediums. With sessions on coding, robotics, critical thinking, and English, our 75 adolescent students are gaining the 21st-century skills they will need for their future, despite the circumstances.
We want to sincerely thank all of our community, donors, and students for all their support through this difficult year for our region as we continue to empower children, youth, and young adults in the region.
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