Name?
Ahmed A. Al Karriri
Where you live?
Gaza – Palestine
Your professional status?
Professional Status:
- Founder of Green Knowledge Community, GKC. GKC is the first green business incubator in Palestine
- Projects Coordinator in External Relations Office at the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG)
I hold a first degree in civil engineering and I am currently pursuing my Master’s degree in Management and Business Administration at (IUG). My research focuses on knowledge management and innovation strategies, especially in entrepreneurship projects.
In the beginning of 2016, I founded the Green Knowledge Community – GKC as the first green business incubator in Palestine. It’s a voluntary -based community, aims at educating the community on green technologies and ways of green lifestyle.
I’m a VIP.fund fellow / Intern / Mentor / Advisor ?
I’m a VIP.fund fellow
Your passion / story / aspiration ?
Personally, my aspiration is to have a fulfilling and satisfying life, to live by design not by default, and to discover the purpose of life and live accordingly.
I do believe that we all have something to share with others. Every day there is a new chance to educate and share knowledge with someone. The most important thing is to keep educating ourselves so we can stay ahead of the curve. In Professional terms, my passions are in the field of green business strategies and social entrepreneurship. My aspiration is to create an influential organization that drives local economy and society to be greener, healthier, and to stimulate and facilitate the knowledge exchange of green practices and solutions.
How has the VIP.fund community helped?
VIP.fund has provided me with a mentoring service to enhance the development of my initiative.
World ask.. what can others do for you?
Others do for me:
- Sharing their experiences with me
- Contributing at scaling up GKC incubator and helping us to make GKC more suitable place for green initiatives and startups in Gaza – Palestine.
- Connecting me with potential opportunities and people who are in the same page with me.
What you can do for others?
I will be happy to help at:
- Social entrepreneurship projects and initiatives.
- Green solutions
- Connecting people with each other
- Helping in collaboration and facilitation as much as I can.
My Name is Lama Amr
I live in Ramallah and I am originally from Hebron.
I am Business Administration fresh graduate, an influencer, a photographer and a filmmaker.
I work as a program coordinator in VIP.fund
I’m passionate about all issues concerning education, art, social innovation and photography.
While participating in the VIP.fund pograms, I was able to shape my presentation, leadership and time management skills. The VIP.fund also expanded my knowledge and experience base so now I feel more ready to work on enhancing my community and maybe the world!
VIP.fund is an enthusiastic community which works together to connect the different skills, thoughts and ideas to position youth in their communities to make the change.
I can use my skills to help others. I’ve got some experience in planning, coordinating, research, social publishing, photography and videography.
Name?
Halima Aziz
Where you live?
Ramallah – Palestine
Your professional status?
Professional Status:
I hold a bachelor degree in Computer science from Birzeit University,I am a highly motivated and smart freelance web developer and graphic Designer having about 3 years experience in custom web development especially in making dynamic websites using WordPress, BuddyPress, CSS, HTML. My love for graphic design stems from my passion to create while solving problems. It’s like combining art and math class – you get to create something stunning while figuring out the best solution. Also, the ability to represent yourself and your client through your work is an honorable feeling.
I’m a VIP.fund fellow / Intern / Mentor / Advisor ?
I’m a VIP.fund fellow
Your passion / story / aspiration ?
In every job a person learns new things every day. I do too, which is another reason that my passion for design has increased. Every day I increase my knowledge base. My work doesn’t end with designing a website. I need to continue managing the site and its backend as well as monitor that everything continues to be well on the frontend. As a designer, I must deal with various bugs; each one leads me through a learning session. Although theoretical learning might not be that interesting, practical learning is much more fun. The challenge of resolving a problem inspires me to continue designing and go through learning experiences every day.
The process of creating something new and witnessing the birth of the design is really amazing. Even today I always get excited to see the end product emerge. Waiting to see it is challenging as thousands of questions flood my mind: Will it be good enough? Can I make it better? Why does the design look incomplete? Is this what I imagined?
How has the VIP.fund community helped?
My experience with vip.fund helped me to use my time wisely. I know that on certain days I do not have time to run errands or hang out with friends even. Each minute of each day is used for something. One thing that works really well for me is to write everything down. I mean everything. I write down if I am going to email people, test something, design or coding. It works for me to use trello platform that goes by the tasks and shows me what I am going to be doing every day. Knowing what I have to do everyday helps me plan out my week and my days.
Joining the social publishing program with the vip.fund at Birzeit university as the IT team leader and also woked as a member in the design team it helped me identify gaps in my leadership skills , There is an important link between teamwork and self-assessment. By its definition, self-assessment sounds like a task for an individual, not a team, but recently I have been learning more about how the two support one other.
vip.fund heped me also in these fields: Attractive contents creation, Marketing Strategy, launching campaigns, apply for grants and launching succefull fundraising campaigns.
World ask.. what can others do for you?
Others do for me:
- Sharing Knowledge and experience.
- Learning New things in design, social Media and web fields.
What you can do for others?
I will be happy to help at:
- Web Design/ Graphic Design
- Creating Branding Identity
- Learning on new platforms
- Technical issues.
- Social Media Support
- Mentor a Child or Student
- Volunteer with charity organizations
- Smile More often
