Fawzi Kyriakos-Saad

Teach For Lebanon is an NGO working to ensure that all children in Lebanon, regardless of socioeconomic background, have access to a quality education. As an organization, we staunchly believe that quality education is not just a simple human right but it is also a weapon to reinforce tolerance, critical thinking, and social cohesion, which leads to a more prosperous, democratic, and sustainable world. Thus, providing quality education, psychological support, and reintegration of vulnerable children is what we work relentlessly for. The model of Teach For Lebanon is an education innovation that focuses on youth capacity building to provide quality intervention and systemic support for students. TFL employs and trains the nation’s top-notch graduates, “TFL Fellows”, and places them in schools serving underprivileged refugee and Lebanese children. The Fellows receive on-going training and support to address educational disadvantages by: - Providing transformational teaching that places their students on a path of academic success; - Expanding their students’ horizons and visions to help them realize their full potential; - Working with the students, schools and local community to alter mindsets through example and advocacy; - Developing extracurricular activities, providing workshops, and community based projects for students families and community leaders. Fellows work in orphanages, semi-free schools and public schools, in formal and non-formal education, covering both the first and second shift program to ensure quality services to underprivileged children. Fellows also provide psycho-social support to their students through recreational activities and psycho-educative interventions in teaching. This serves as an effective solution that will help children overcome psychological struggles, and in turn unleash their full potential in their learning, cognition, and emotional regulation, hence, leading to better academic performances.

To rally Lebanese professionals globally to support each other and work together towards a brighter future for Lebanon and its diaspora.

Bokja is a surface fabrication company that utilizes textile to create tactile and creative lifestyle items. This design studio crafts meaningful narratives through an array of embroidery techniques and fabric manipulation, pioneering to preserve local traditions, redefining them in a contemporary voice.

nafda is a collective that aims at growing a social movement through Lebanon’s education sector: - spearheaded by school principals and educators - catalyzed by local actors - anchored in the values of: Engaged Citizenship, Good Governance and Social Justice Our mission is to empower a critical mass of school communities to lead bottom-up transformation, driving meaningful social change guided by our core values of Engaged Citizenship, Good Governance, and Social Justice. Our vision is a unified and forward-thinking Lebanon, where every individual is an agent of change, fostering a culture of inclusivity, connectivity, and collaboration

Askif is on a mission. Driving a tech-enabled revolution in SME lending; shaking up the traditional finance model and improving the lives of millions. Working towards a fairer, sustainable, more inclusive financial services industry. Our approach to finance is different. We put people at the heart of what we do – unlocking approvals through our unique hybrid model, combining ‘human touch’ with tech. Fostering entrepreneurship and helping to grow the UK economy by lending inclusively and sustainably to under-served yet creditworthy borrowers. Providing small businesses with substantial opportunities for transformation. Askif is dedicated to fixing parts of the finance industry that have long needed fixing. Committed to supporting businesses across all communities and continually monitoring reach to ensure diversity amongst borrowers. We are a true fintech: One of the few female-led Fintechs in the UK. A small, highly motivated team; focused, nimble and ambitious, with deep finance industry experience and fantastic industry partnerships. We expect to quickly become a dominant inclusive lender for Entrepreneurs and small companies – and the largest national Community Development Finance Institution (CFDI).

Teach For Lebanon is an NGO working to ensure that all children in Lebanon, regardless of socioeconomic background, have access to a quality education. As an organization, we staunchly believe that quality education is not just a simple human right but it is also a weapon to reinforce tolerance, critical thinking, and social cohesion, which leads to a more prosperous, democratic, and sustainable world. Thus, providing quality education, psychological support, and reintegration of vulnerable children is what we work relentlessly for. The model of Teach For Lebanon is an education innovation that focuses on youth capacity building to provide quality intervention and systemic support for students. TFL employs and trains the nation’s top-notch graduates, “TFL Fellows”, and places them in schools serving underprivileged refugee and Lebanese children. The Fellows receive on-going training and support to address educational disadvantages by: - Providing transformational teaching that places their students on a path of academic success; - Expanding their students’ horizons and visions to help them realize their full potential; - Working with the students, schools and local community to alter mindsets through example and advocacy; - Developing extracurricular activities, providing workshops, and community based projects for students families and community leaders. Fellows work in orphanages, semi-free schools and public schools, in formal and non-formal education, covering both the first and second shift program to ensure quality services to underprivileged children. Fellows also provide psycho-social support to their students through recreational activities and psycho-educative interventions in teaching. This serves as an effective solution that will help children overcome psychological struggles, and in turn unleash their full potential in their learning, cognition, and emotional regulation, hence, leading to better academic performances.