The main goal of the project is to raise the awareness of 1,000 vulnerable Syrian families from the Jaramana Rural Damascus area (selected according to a Vulnerability Assessment) about the pandemic, on how to cope with the COVID-19 crisis, and the safe attitude to adopt. By the end of the intervention, these families will be followed by qualified staff to accompany and assess their needs and to develop the project further.

This project has been designed to assist teachers and students in adopting distance education strategies instead of traditional, face to face classroom activities, severely affected by the impact of COVID-19. By offering a new online-based platform, it aims at improving the education system by decentralizing the testing process and providing various competitive educational services that could meet the needs of teachers and students.

The project works towards shifting the culture of social entrepreneurship, business, and change-making to include a focus on holistic wellbeing to enable anyone to contribute more effectively to creating positive change in the world. Its website display 140+ freely accessible wellbeing “recipes”, covering mental, physical, emotional, spiritual and digital wellbeing practices, as well as interactive workshops, and wellbeing labs. Applicable to teams, individuals, organizations, and communities.

By implementing unconventional non-formal education and youth work, this project aspires to prevent domestic violence by teaching young people from high schools to recognize the phenomenon since its initial phase, as well as to create a community of aware youngsters capable of identifying, reacting and reporting domestic violence. Developed in high schools across Italy, it also aspires to scale in local schools in Egypt and potentially UAE.

This project’s objective is twofold: to develop a low-cost system to support telemedicine services related to digital medical images and laboratory test; and purchase an integrated, automated system that stores, distribute and displays these images. By facilitating the share of information remotely, this system will play a unique role in avoiding the spread of COVID-19 and connecting isolated or low-serviced areas in the MENA region and beyond.

The fourth edition of the broader WE AfriHug project, an educational initiative of the Youthmakers Hub, this project aims to promote Erasmus+ and widen the participation of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in all African Countries and the Mediterranean region including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, through digital training seminars. A Country Ambassadors (CR) will connect the WE AfriHug team with local partners, to collaborate for identifying the local needs.

At the core of this initiative are the Mediterranean homeless, hidden victims of the pandemic whereby staying at home to isolate themselves from the virus is not an option. To solve this issue, the applicants intend to launch a homeless response system by establishing a youth-based electronic platform for raising awareness on homeless across the Mediterranean and providing the necessary means for improving their lives through dedicated supporting institutions.

This pioneering project, considered the first of its kind in North Africa, answered to the frequent need for immediate blood transfusions in Libya by offering fast and safe blood delivery services through the employment of a fleet of GPS-tracked drones. Starting with the capital Tripoli, the proposal aspires to save lives in crowded and remote places across the country by connecting and supplying all the Libyan medical centres with the few blood banks available.

The initiative has a clear goal to provide Algerian Down syndrome individuals with the opportunity to improve their skills in different spheres (such as drawing and arts) to integrate them with other social groups through their works. Furthermore, it also aims at changing the social stereotype around this group in the Algerian society by raising awareness on social media. This program will gradually result in encouraging people to include them in the community efficiently and give them space to show their capacities and be productive individuals.

The COVID-19 outbreak had worsened the already critic conditions concerning food security in Lebanon. In this situation, several residents started to produce their own processed food and dairies. Supporting Lebanese citizens before and in the aftermath of the pandemic is crucial. To this end, this initiative aims at connecting local farmers and food producers with consumers through developing a website, a mobile application (using GIS), and organizing training (in different sectors like home agriculture, food processing and production). These training will also allow young employees to develop their own business.