Free Training
Coding bootcamp in Gaza
We are very excited to partner with Code for Girls. As part of the partnership, we will be running a coding bootcamp to the girls of Gaza to enable them to develop websites!
You can check out this link, where you can read more about the bootcamp. Click here to see the kind of outcomes of our graduates. Also here is a PDF that has the company profile, if you wanted to know more about us. (you can check us out on our social media platforms twitter, insta.. etc).
We will be posting more details on how to express interests.
Business Mentorship
UpEffect is happy to offer youth in Gaza mentorship in starting a business, fundraising, marketing, CV-building and connecting to people within their network.
UpEffect is a crowdfunding and support platform advancing opportunities for responsible leaders of the new economy. We empower and equip founders and brands with tools and recipes to address today's most pressing problems including social and economic injustice, climate change, global poverty, illiteracy and more. We do this through three mediums: rewards-based crowdfunding, crowdfunding coaching, and strategic consulting. Each of these offerings aims to help companies grow revenue, build a community, create living wage jobs across their supply chains, and operate as a responsible actor in the economy.
Creative Arts Mentoring
Terakota is an independent and boutique creative agency focused on branding and motion design. Terakota adopts a holistic approach. We look at the big picture and determine solutions considering the whole. We are flexible and are able to adapt to the needs of the project by forming project-specific teams with expert creative minds from around the world. Founded in October 2020 with the partnership of Abdulkadir Keskin and Cihan Balunak, Terakota aims to preserve its distinct approach, principles, and business style all while retaining its independence and distinct character.
Terakota can mentor freelancers and willing students in Gaza in the following area of interest: film, motion design, animation, brand design and graphic design.
Virtual Creative Writing workshops
Facilitator: Sofia Nakou
Sofia Nakou holds a BA(hons) in Drama from Kingston University and an MSc in Theatre and Performance studies from Edinburgh University. With over 10 years of experience as a drama facilitator and theatre director Sofia has worked with some of the leading art organisations in Scotland such as the Lyceum theatre, Tron theatre, Borders Youth Theatre, Edinburgh Youth Theatre, Impact Arts etc. Currently, Sofia is an interdisciplinary PhD student working on her thesis, (Re)Constructing Asylum Narratives through the lens of Applied Theatre; a research project on how the asylum seekers’ narratives, and subsequently mental health, are affected by the asylum system process and how Applied Theatre can be part of an interdisciplinary approach to such complicated and ongoing issue.
Workshop summary
The goal of the workshops will be to use the time and space to write and be creative as a group. Sessions will include sharing of online art (that can be spoken word poetry, a performed monologue, a short story, animation etc), reflections and conversations with the young people. Based on the stimulus and discussions of each workshop we will build the themes and genres of writing we will be approaching. Each workshop will include warm up exercises/games, discussions over the theme/stimulus of the day, quite time (accompanied by our favourite music) where everybody will have the chance to concentrate and write and will be followed by sharing, feedback and reflections.