In 2013, a 13-year old girl Fatima fled Aleppo, the bleeding heart of the Syrian Civil War. Today she epitomizes a contradiction. Despite unspeakable violence and the loss of beloved ones in her war-torn homeland, her unbreakable human spirit remains hopeful and resilient against all crushing odds. She studies Physics at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and dreams of making an impact in the world.
However, Fatima cannot find work in Lebanon to sustain herself and her family, and she does not qualify for any support of humanitarian programs – which target only refugees in camps. This is a blow to her dignity making her even more vulnerable and undermining her dreams.
6 months ago, we created TaQadam, “Progress” in Arabic, as a solution to break the cycle of poverty and provide a sustainable change for young refugee women in the Middle-East, giving them the opportunity to earn a life-changing income.
TaQadam is a mobile platform aimed at providing ambitious young refugees in need of paid work, a work opportunity in an innovative tech market. At TaQadam, we train talented refugees, youth and women on image data annotation to become “data trainers” for Artificial Intelligence.
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In a key stage of our development we need your support to invest in the testing and delivery of the first contracts to provide a living proof that our teams and other talented, educated refugees can conduct professional, hi-tech work.
We aim to offer this service for companies that work on Artificial Intelligence algorithms or websites looking to enhance search results for their users. It is an incredibly high potential market during an era of massive data volumes generated daily, globally.
Focusing on Lebanon-based refugees. Our current focus is on Syrian and Palestinian refugees based in Lebanon as well as on vulnerable Lebanese youth. Indeed, thousands of Syrian and Palestinian refugees fled to Lebanon and the economy simply cannot absorb this population by providing them with sustainable work opportunities.
How You Can Help
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