Weam Charaf Eddine

An advocate for well-being and social cohesion is expanding community-based spaces where people practice emotional regulation, empathy, and communication, while extending an evidence-informed model into schools, workplaces, and communities through trained facilitators, stronger partnerships, and sustainable funding.

Michel Nakle

Lebanon is home to more than 164,000 migrants representing 83 nationalities, yet migrant and Lebanese communities often remain apart. Led by a former IOM manager, YOUnify uses digital storytelling to elevate diverse voices, challenge limiting narratives, and build understanding, connection, and social cohesion.

Tarek Said

This project equips Palestinian and Lebanese youth to cross entrenched divisions through structured dialogue and collective action on shared challenges, building the trust, leadership, and problem-solving skills needed to create lasting social and economic value.

Elie Keryakos

This initiative provides young people in Jezzine with practical skills training, mentorship, and links to employment, internships, and freelance work—strengthening confidence, employability, belonging, and hope while reducing pressure to migrate.

Rasha Hlayhel

This initiative uses Minecraft Education, AI, and hands-on STEAM activities to help conflict-affected students explore the Eight Pillars of Peace, build critical-thinking and leadership skills, and become Peace Ambassadors in their schools and communities.

Muhammad Tawil

This child-centered technology lab helps children from diverse backgrounds move from consuming technology to creating solutions for community challenges through a safe, structured process of identifying problems, designing ideas, building, testing, and improving their work.

Sarah Khalil

This initiative expands girls’ access to STEM through workshops, mentorship, real-world challenges, and internships. By connecting secondary-school students with universities and companies, it builds knowledge, confidence, cross-community collaboration, and tangible pathways into STEM education and careers.

Sara Alkassas

This initiative helps financially vulnerable students in South Lebanon access and complete university through partial scholarships, interest-free loans, SAT preparation, life-skills training, and livelihood support, while strengthening university agreements, outreach, and administrative systems for sustainable growth.

Jana Sabra

Now in its fifth cohort, the Intersection Mentorship Program connects university students with professionals across sectors, generations, and countries through mentoring, coaching, workshops, and networking—building career pathways alongside trust, belonging, empathy, and relationships across differences.

Antonia Tayeh

This initiative transforms interactive AR games from entertainment into inclusive educational experiences where children with and without disabilities learn, move, and play together while developing cognitive abilities, emotional regulation, communication, teamwork, empathy, resilience, and confidence.

Wissam Khaled

Led by a multidisciplinary legal and technology team, AIJUR helps law firms in North Lebanon modernize through stronger governance, improved workflows, digital systems, AI-enabled tools, and training—increasing efficiency, transparency, sustainability, and their capacity to provide reliable legal services.

Mohamad Asaad El Assaad

Led by a farmer in Akkar, SeedPact will bring 60 farmers from four villages into a shared hub offering training, equipment, grants, transparent purchasing, and regular gatherings—improving agricultural productivity and incomes while strengthening trust, collaboration, and community resilience.

Leen Echtay

Led by a doctor and university medical team, this initiative is developing a digital library of physician-led health videos with Lebanese Sign Language interpretation and Arabic captions—expanding access to reliable information and empowering Lebanon’s estimated 8,000 deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals.

Ralph Choueiry

Working through Bsharri Municipality, this initiative introduces color-coded containers and community engagement to improve household and business waste sorting. Its longer-term vision is a shared waste sorting, recycling, and management facility that reduces pollution, system pressures, and municipal costs.

Hanane Farhat

Piloted in Saida, this community-led initiative turns residents’ experiences into credible evidence about priority needs, service gaps, access barriers, and tensions—helping Mouvement Social improve programs while advocating for more transparent, equitable, and responsive decisions.

Daniella Khalil

This initiative acts as a knowledge broker among nonprofits, businesses, public institutions, and municipalities—identifying institutional gaps, transferring useful practices across sectors, and helping each organization adapt and apply them to become more effective, sustainable, resilient, and responsive.

Daniel El Kadi

A growing for-profit potato chip provider is leveraging its business to “give back” through job, internship, and other community income-generating opportunities. Beyond local sales, exports have begun in MENA, the US, and Australia.

Marie-Lynn Boursali

Embrace’s Mobile Mental Health Clinic brings free, confidential consultations and psychosocial support directly to conflict-affected and underserved communities across Lebanon. Through local awareness sessions and referrals to primary healthcare centers, it expands access, improves well-being, and strengthens continuity of care.

Reem Mufarrij, Andre Khoury

Youth In Action brings young people, communities, and municipalities across Koura together through recurring cultural, recreational, and nature-based tourism experiences—creating neutral spaces that build trust, encourage collaboration across political and ideological lines, and strengthen a shared local identity.

Maysaa Mikdadi

Building on economic-empowerment support provided to 244 survivors of gender-based violence, this project trains 20 women as Peer Mentors and Peace Ambassadors who will mentor other women and engage young people in gender equality, healthy relationships, positive masculinity, and nonviolent communication.

Aisha Kerdi

This initiative focuses on community leadership development and trades-based training that brings different neighborhood groups together (especially young people and women) to embrace a shared identity and build connections through restoration, rehabilitation, and renewal projects.

Rakan Diab

This initiative is designed to mobilize parents, youth, teachers, religious leaders, and community influencers to increase referrals for specialized protection services that address child labor and gender-based violence.

Sandra El Danaf

This youth-centered, volunteer-based initiative is an integrated approach to gender equity, human rights, and peacebuilding action projects across public and private schools. Planned milestones include a National Youth Forum for up to 1,000 participants.