Best Practice: StartUps without Borders in Egypt

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We discovered a great example of "INFUSION" in Cairo:
In late March,  a newly-established initiative called Startups without Borders gathered around 200 women refugees at the American University of Cairo. The participating female entrepreneurs could listen to each other’s stories and how each one of them was able to leave an impact in the societies she was moving to. 
The goal was to support the matching of refugee and migrant entrepreneurs with available opportunities in order to help them launch and develop their startups.
According to the United Nations, Syrian refugees alone have contributed nearly $800 million to the country’s economy since the start of the Syrian crisis.
Find out more in the article published by Wamda.

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