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August 2024
Annual Report 2023
From strengthening Egypt’s handicrafts sector and increasing its social impact, contributing to Lebanese food security and to creating more possibilities for learning and common action among partners in Morocco – these are just some of the major achievements and activities DROSOS FOUNDATION supported last year, featured in our Annual Report 2023.
December 2023
End of Year Reflections by Suba Umathevan
Suba Umathevan, CEO of DROSOS FOUNDATION, delves into the challenges and achievements we have experienced throughout 2023, as well as her wishes for 2024.
August 2023
Annual report 2022
Discover our annual report 2022 to learn how our partners across Egypt, Germany, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Switzerland and Tunisia facilitated social and economic inclusion, drove social innovation and entrepreneurship, and scaled successful initiatives in the midst of highly challenging economic, political and social contexts.
New Projects
Access to the world of work (Switzerland)
Yojoa
Young refugees who come to Switzerland face significant barriers when trying to enter the job market, especially if they arrive as unaccompanied minors. The employment rate for persons with such a background is less than 50% despite the Swiss labor …
Jordan and Lebanon - Express Yourself
Bridges of Dignity
“Bridges of Dignity” aims to ensure that youth and adolescents from the forgotten neighbourhoods of East Amman and Tafilah have accessible pathways towards work or higher education and have easier and better access to professional networks and social capital related …
Europe
Care leaver worldwide 2.0
“Careleaver Weltweit 2.0” is a follow-up project to “Careleaver Weltweit. Persönlichkeitsentwicklung durch soziales Engagement im Ausland” and part of DROSOS FOUNDATION’s programme “Brückensteine” working to improving the situation for and with care leavers in Germany. “Careleaver Weltweit 2.0” aims to …
Lebanon - Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship
Diaspora for Lebanon (LIFE)
Agri-business and the green economy are vital for the sustainability of the Lebanese economy. LIFE is a diaspora-based network organisation that pools resources and expertise of Lebanese abroad to serve Lebanon. The project connects and supports three groups of stakeholders …
Egypt
Threads of Hope
The project is a story of hope using the point of a needle to translate feelings, pain, nostalgia and memories of disadvantaged young women into beautifully handcrafted high-quality products to earn income, and to support themselves and their families. Threads …
Egypt
Cooperatives network
The project builds on the successful model of establishing cooperatives and applying the principles of collective work in Egypt. During the Cooperate project, 12 Cooperatives were established and registered leading to an increase in the income of 300 small farmers …
Egypt
From Skills to Earning
This new project capitalizes on the learning from a previous collaboration with Ana Masry organization in Upper Egypt on the project Arts for All, whereby 190 young people developed the drive for volunteerism and readiness for work. In this project, …
Morocco
Empowering the disability movement in Morocco – EnableMe
The objective of this initiative is to establish an online platform to bolster the disability movement in Morocco. The platform will serve as an information hub and a virtual community for people with disabilities (PWD), their caretakers, and professionals working …
Egypt
Resource Hub for Small Scale Farmers
This pilot project applies an experimental approach introducing a model for collective work among small-scale farmers to test an innovative new value chain to attract youth to agribusinesses. Skills building and implementation coaching is offered to young farmers through 1) …
Morocco
Academy of Cultural Professions -AMC
In Morocco, the cultural sector is growing and it offers untapped opportunities for employment. There are hundreds of cultural and youth centres spread across the country. However, many of them remain inactive due to the lack of human resources. Training …
Lebanon - Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship
Golden Crops
Golden Crops strengthens the economic empowerment of small-scale farmers and workers in the Beqaa region and contributes to the consolidation of the Lebanese agri-food systems. The project supports the agricultural production of strategic crops (grains and pulses), and trains 600 …
Lebanon - Self-Employment and Entrepreneurship
Promoting the local food system
cIn collaboration with the American University of Beirut, this project seeks to enhance the legumes value chain by assisting small-scale farmers and agri-businesses in North and South Lebanon to improve their knowledge of circular economy, sustainable production, business development, and …
Morocco
MA3ANE (Together)
This pilot project aims to assist young men and women from vulnerable backgrounds in Aouama Charkia, a working-class district in Tangier, to integrate into the workforce and establish their professional careers. The project intends to accomplish this by providing professional …
Europe
“Show what you can” – Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
The project is a follow-up of the project “Show what you can”, which successfully implemented the mentoring programme in and around Schwerin, the capital of the federal state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Through the mentoring programme in the follow-up project, 120 young participants …
Europe
Gründungslabor Weimar
In contrast to its world-famous image as a city of culture, Weimar, like many eastern German cities, is struggling with a declining birth rate, an aging population and segregation. Young people in particular have only limited prospects for the future …
(…) DROSOS promotes life and professional skills of young people, enabling them to find their way to social and economic independence.