Economic Empowerment Program

Designers for Development is a project funded by the Welfare Association to support IT graduates and undergraduates with opportunities to develop their skills in the field of web design and business entrepreneurship. The project aims to enable them to start up their own businesses in web design and to enhance their potential to obtain employment.

As a proactive measure to tackle one of the most difficult problems facing our community, Leaders networks between new graduates and private institutions or businessmen with the goal of creating job opportunities and encouraging acceptance of new concepts and ideas proposed by young people.

Outsource2Palestine is a 14 month economic empowerment project initiated in August 2010 and funded by the Welfare Association and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development. Implemented by Leaders, the project supports 20 young Palestinian entrepreneurs to establish specialized businesses in Palestine that can outsource services in the fields of IT, 3D modeling, translation, electromechanical engineering, and financial analysis.

Young Web Designers is a 6 month project aimed at equipping young Palestinians from disadvantaged communities in the West Bank with the skills and competencies required to start their own businesses or enter the job market as qualified web designers.

There are few professional web designers in the Palestinian territories and therefore Leaders aimed to train a group of 70 young people (male and female) with skills required to fill this gap and build on this sector of the Palestinian economy.

Young Women Leaders is a project carried out by Leaders Organization and funded by Henirich Boll Foundation. The project aimed at building the capacity of a group of young female graduates and undergraduates, and help them master new skills to better challenge the reality and play a leading role in the community. The project allowed every participant to be engaged in a job shadowing experience where they were expected to accompany one of the women in leading positions in the political, social or economic fields for a period of two weeks. Such an experience was great value to the participants as they were allowed the opportunity to gain leadership techniques.