Embracing change and growing from it Shawgi Ahmed, Talent & Connections Coordinator for PLACE & Co-Chairperson for Education Above All For Shawgi, a polyvalent engineer & musician from Sudan, with a penchant for humanitarian action, change can’t hinder...
Seizing the opportunity of refugee entrepreneurship What does it take to be an entrepreneur in 2020? Resilience, creativity, adaptability and a willingness to stick with it when the going gets tough. Coincidentally, these are also the skills that refugees naturally...
For PLACE, 2019 was a year that transformed the insights of an experiment into the foundation of something that can spark a systems-level change. The newcomers that trusted PLACE with their growth were an essential part of this transformation. Here is a snapshot of...
In the 21st century, what is a community without connectivity? Communities have been behind the greatest changes in our history. Every era has seen exceptional community-based initiatives grow into society-changing movements – it is not just a trend, it is the...
Learning from newcomers in the time of COVID-19 As of March 21st, 2020 it was estimated that 20% of the world’s population was under some form of lockdown due to COVID-19. It is an unprecedented health crisis that has changed the way we live and work together as a...
