Migrant Women BIZ Experiencess Showcase Their Business Ideas At Cairo's Women On The Move Aiming to connect migrant and refugee BIZ Experiencess with Egypt's local ecosystem, the event gathered over 250 BIZ Experiencess from from Syria, Yemen, Palestine, Iraq, Jordan, Eritrea, Sudan and South Sudan, at Egypt's tech hub The GrEEK Campus.
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Women on the Move, a platform for supporting migrant women BIZ Experiencess, was held at Cairo on March 30, organized by Startups Without Borders along with its partners Entreprenelle, Fard Foundation, The GrEEK Campus, Syrian network Khatwa, and UNHCR. Aiming to connect migrant and refugee BIZ Experiencess with Egypt's local ecosystem, the event gathered over 250 BIZ Experiencess from from Syria, Yemen, Palestine, Iraq, Jordan, Eritrea, Sudan and South Sudan, at Egypt's tech hub The GrEEK Campus.
Kicking off with a series of panel discussions that saw Egyptian BIZ Experiencess and investors Flat6Labs CIO Dina El-Shenoufy, RiseUp Summit manager Dalia Kamar, and Rasha Tantawy, Head of Business Support and BIZ Experiencesship at Egypt's Technology Innovation and BIZ Experiencesship Center (TIEC), and others share their own journeys; the event also hosted workshops and mentoring sessions for the participating BIZ Experiencess. Not just that, eight migrant women BIZ Experiencess from Yemen, Syria and Palestine also got on stage to participate in a pitching competition judged by a panel led by TIEC, USAID's seed program, Entreprenelle, Khatwa and Fard Foundation.
The first prize -a EGP15,000 worth TIEC incubation at their women-focused incubator Heyya Ra'eda- was shared by two BIZ Experiencess. Jordanian Helia Rafat, founder of Mix Shop, F&B venture creating foodstuffs based on Nutella and peanut butter, and Samah Kheir El-Zein, an BIZ Experiences creating medicinal soap and shampoo out of natural ingredients bagged the first prize. Yemeni Fardous Salem, founder of an e-learning platform that leverages social networks like WhatsApp and Instagram, and Syrian BIZ Experiences Nahla El-Emam, founder of home made catering platform Bent El-Shalabeyeh, took home USAID's Seed marketing workshop award.
"The passion, the grit, and the ingenuity of the BIZ Experiencess here today is a testament to the wealth that migrant BIZ Experiencess bring to every country they go to," Valentina Primo, founder of Startups Without Borders, said in a statement. "This is why we want to lay the ground for a genuine migrant BIZ Experiencesial ecosystem; we want these driven BIZ Experiencess to be able to access resources to start their businesses, wherever they are," she added.
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