YMCB - Young Migrants Capacity Building

After a 2️⃣-year journey 2️⃣2️⃣ training sessions with 6️⃣0️⃣ who followed our and scheme and 2️⃣0️⃣ new businesses created has come to an end, but we are leaving a rich legacy behind 📢

Read more 👉 https://ymcb.eu/2021/04/30/ymcb-has-come-to-an-end/



AEIDL (European Association for Information on Local Development) Oxfam Firenze Fondazione Adecco per le Pari Opportunità SPARK Zentrum für Soziale Innovation - ZSI The Hague University of Applied Sciences Microfinance Centre (MFC)

Thank you all for attending the 𝗠𝗘𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗙𝗨𝗟 𝗗𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗙𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 and supporting us along the way 👏👏

We also want to thank to EUStartGees EMEN ELYME Project BITE - Building Integration Through EntrepreneurshipMagnet - Migrant Acceleration for Growth Network M-UP ME4Change for joining forces and working together to organise this event and explore synergies to maximise impact of our projects!

If you missed it, you can watch the recording and listen to inspiring stories and EU-projects supporting in Europe 👉 https://youtu.be/YpTbR5fuQRQ

It’s hard to acknowledge the Meaningful Diversity Conference had come to an end yesterday…. the EU co-funded projects worked so hard for the past two plus years for this.✨

Thanks to so many speakers sharing the insights and stories, the conference was great and successful alongside knowledge and laughter. Our brave migrant entrepreneurs sharing their entrepreneurial journey;✨ project partners sharing how they help and what they achieved;✨ Life coach Kyla Mitsunaga giving us a session on Networking, utilising breakout rooms, where all the participants were divided into small groups of four to exchange experiences.✨ Julie Murat, from Bridge for Billions, also joined us and talked about entrepreneurship, showing the importance to support entrepreneurs towards the business path, and how we can learn from them! ✨

When listening to how refugees fled their homeland to Europe for a new chapter of their life, it was just inspiring but heartbreaking to think of how many more people are in the need of help for a new start. We are grateful to be able to work with those amazing migrant/refugee/EU newcomer entrepreneurs, but we are even more eager to continue our mission, providing more thorough and considerate assistance.

Such an amazing community and we are looking forward to exploring new synergies! Thank you to all the participants, and testimonials, good luck for the future! We are on this together!

If you missed the conference yesterday, you can watch it here😊: https://youtu.be/YpTbR5fuQRQ



EUStartGees, ELYME Project , YMCB - Young Migrants Capacity Building, EMEN, BITE - Building Integration Through Entrepreneurship , Magnet - Migrant Acceleration for Growth Network, M-UP, ME4Change

Project Partners: Fondazione Eris Onlus, X23 The Innovation Bakery, Startup Refugees , CHAPTER #2,

Check out the agenda - sessions sharing best practices, inspiring stories and lessons learned on how to better support 🇪🇺

Join us tomorrow 📢 REGISTER 👉 http://bit.ly/38XUkAR



YMCB - Young Migrants Capacity Building EUStartGees EMEN ELYME Project BITE - Building Integration Through Entrepreneurship Magnet - Migrant Acceleration for Growth Network M-UP ME4Change

AEIDL (European Association for Information on Local Development) Zentrum für Soziale Innovation - ZSI Oxfam Firenze SPARK Fondazione Adecco per le Pari Opportunità Microfinance Centre (MFC) The Hague University of Applied Sciences

Amila participated in the programme in 🇦🇹 She is planning to set up a social enterprise focused on professional development of women and business development for female entrepreneurs, working beyond borders.

https://ymcb.eu/2021/03/17/amila-jasarevic/



Amila participated in the programme in She is planning to set up a social enterprise focused on professional development of women and business development for female entrepreneurs, working beyond borders.

👉https://ymcb.eu/2021/03/17/amila-jasarevic/

AEIDL (European Association for Information on Local Development) Zentrum für Soziale Innovation - ZSI Fondazione Adecco per le Pari Opportunità SPARK Oxfam Firenze Microfinance Centre (MFC) The Hague University of Applied Sciences

📢 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗳𝘂𝗹 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 📢

📆 March 23, 10:00 - 16:00

The conference will present the results from the EU co-funded projects supporting across Europe, testimonies from participants of support programmes and stories of migrant and refugee entrepreneurs who made it.

✍ 𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗡𝗢𝗪 👉 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meaningful-diversity-high-level-conference-tickets-143068713373?fbclid=IwAR0QeCJfxff7G1F41j4dzST7xoyknV_7MVR1NAu4mbevILEy4ZrPM-uStnw

YMCB - Young Migrants Capacity Building EUStartGees EMEN ELYME Project BITE - Building Integration Through Entrepreneurship Magnet - Migrant Acceleration for Growth Network M-UP

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AEIDL (European Association for Information on Local Development) Zentrum für Soziale Innovation - ZSI Microfinance Centre (MFC) SPARK Oxfam Firenze Fondazione Adecco per le Pari Opportunità The Hague University of Applied Sciences

MEANINGFUL DIVERSITY HIGH-LEVEL CONFERENCE The Meaningful Diversity Conference

“People tend to start out focused on what they know how to do as a profession, but less about how to get there, such as training or finding information. My advice is to also focus on what goes on around the specific business, from how to run the business, to how you research certain information, matching what others do. Do not focus solely on your expertise, things you already know – your ‘primary activities’.

- Afredite Shani

Read the full story: https://ymcb.eu/2021/02/28/aferdite-shani/

AEIDL (European Association for Information on Local Development) Oxfam Firenze SPARK Zentrum für Soziale Innovation - ZSI Fondazione Adecco per le Pari Opportunità The Hague University of Applied Sciences Microfinance Centre (MFC)

Alia is a founder of BeMyVision, a foundation for partially sighted and blind people in the Netherlands and Morocco. When the global pandemic of Covid19 hit their operation, she had to reinvent the business model.

Full story: https://ymcb.eu/2021/03/03/alia-jarboue/

EnterStart AEIDL (European Association for Information on Local Development) Zentrum für Soziale Innovation - ZSI Oxfam Firenze Fondazione Adecco per le Pari Opportunità Microfinance Centre (MFC) SPARK The Hague University of Applied Sciences

Cyprien moved to Italy in 2001 where he later set up a cleaning company, and along the way, he diversified his activities based on the needs of his customers. Now he runs a multiservice enterprise.

Read more👉 https://ymcb.eu/2021/02/28/cyprien-sessou/


AEIDL (European Association for Information on Local Development) Fondazione Adecco per le Pari Opportunità SPARK Oxfam Firenze Zentrum für Soziale Innovation - ZSI Microfinance Centre (MFC) The Hague University of Applied Sciences

Zakia Dip has a successful Lebanese traiteur in Casablanca, Morocco. Due to the impact of the Covid-19, she had to reinvent her business. It was a success.

Read the full story 👉 https://ymcb.eu/2021/02/19/zakia-dip/

EnterStart Shahawate Loubnane AEIDL (European Association for Information on Local Development) Oxfam Firenze Fondazione Adecco per le Pari Opportunità The Hague University of Applied Sciences Microfinance Centre (MFC) SPARK

"You have to give it a try. Often, migrants are afraid to go down the entrepreneurial path because they think they are not going to make it, but you never know unless you take the risk. You have to jump in.”

- Lululoko Mayisokolua I Artist & Craftsman

Read the full story 👉https://ymcb.eu/2021/02/28/luloloko-mayisokolua/



AEIDL (European Association for Information on Local Development) Oxfam Firenze Zentrum für Soziale Innovation - ZSI Fondazione Adecco per le Pari Opportunità Microfinance Centre (MFC) The Hague University of Applied Sciences SPARK

Contrary to what many assume or prejudge, financing can be indeed attractive and profitable for . But this requires that staff of such institutions leave the beaten track...

Learn more about our last webinar on Access to Finance for staff of financial institutions 👉 https://ymcb.eu/2021/03/10/webinar-access-to-finance/



AEIDL (European Association for Information on Local Development) The Hague University of Applied Sciences Microfinance Centre (MFC) Zentrum für Soziale Innovation - ZSI Fondazione Adecco per le Pari Opportunità Oxfam Firenze SPARK

YMCB - Webinar on Financial education for staff of Financial Institutions working with migrant entrepreneurs YMCB webinar on the practical use of the Guide on “Financial Education for better Access to Finance for Migrant & Refugee Entrepreneurs”.