Equipping Young Peacemakers initiative spotlight: International Youth Ambassadors Foundation written by EYP participant Sadeer Issa As we have discussed throughout the Equipping Young Peacemakers series, young men and women in the MENA region face many challenges. When it comes to employment, minimal opportunities for career progression, community acknowledgment, and market awareness hinder our […]
Equipping Young Peacemakers initiative spotlight: Better World Organization written by EYP participant Walaa Musheer Ahmed In 2014, ISIS violently took over a third of Iraq, displacing more than one million people across the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq. The Duhok Governorate is one of the major hotspots for this, hosting incredibly high ratios of […]
Equipping Young Peacemakers initiative spotlight: DoctorX written by EYP participant Ahmad Bassam The last SDG Roundtable of the Equipping Young Peacemakers program discussed “Green Power: Building Sustainable Cities”. After learning from Omar Saif (the Regional Economic Advisor on Water, Energy, & Food Security for the Dutch Mission in the United Arab Emirates), I […]
Equipping Young Peacemakers initiative spotlight: Meemz Art written by EYP participant Shaima Bin Othman In a country like Yemen, where all one can hear is bad news, circumstances around us drive us to give up dreams of a better future. Young people are forced to face reality with two options: either drowning in the […]