Palestinian startups are all about building community
On the heels of an entrepreneurship conference in Jordan, three female Palestinian entrepreneurs have launched startups that aim to educate and empower young Palestinians.
It's not easy for young Palestinian entrepreneurs to combine development and modern technology in their projects in the face of societal challenges. But a group of ambitious and strong Palestinian women did just that.
Lamis Qdemat, Besan Abu-Joudeh and Dalia Akila told Al-Monitor how they turned their dreams into ideas and then realized them as projects on the ground.
The three young Palestinian women participated this past November in AMWAJ (“waves” in Arabic), an international sustainability and entrepreneurship forum focused on the Middle East, organized by PepsiCo in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
Mustafa Shams Eddin, PepsiCo's regional vice president of sales and business development, said in a Nov. 29 press statement, “It is necessary to help social entrepreneurs to enable them to attract investments. Young people have the spirit of initiative amid challenges, low quality of education, lack of skills, unemployment, water scarcity and lack of equal opportunities between the sexes."
