MEPI grantee Lebanese Center for Active Citizenship empowers local women

MEPI Local grantee Lebanese Center for Active Citizenship (LCAC) successfully empowered and trained 100 refugee and Lebanese women to produce and sell high quality fishing nets.  The program also trained the women on how to market their product and cut out middle men, further empowering these women economically in their communities.  The women have been able to …

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By | 24 February, 2020 | Topics: Business, Economic Issues, Gender Issues, Job Opportunities, News, Success Stories, Trade, U.S. & MEPI | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

CorpsAfrica/Maroc, a MEPI Success Story

Learning from the PeaceCorps model, CorpsAfrica launched a new model for Moroccan volunteers to help their own communities – particularly challenging when the culture of volunteerism is not that pervasive. MEPI has been a key partner to helping CorpsAfrica get started and established. Now in its third year of operations, CorpsAfrica’s project “Volunteerism and Community …

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By | 21 February, 2017 | Topics: Events, Featured Event, Job Opportunities, Near East & North Africa, Success Stories, Trade, U.S. & MEPI | Tags: , , , , , ,

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