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Welcome bloomers, Here is your summary of the newsletter this week: 🌱7 refugee-led social impact organizations 🌱Mentorship event on gender careers 🌱African women in agriculture award with love & light, Jasmine 💌 Did a friend forward you this email? Sign up to get your own copy of The Bloom to your inbox with top social impact jobs, uplifting stories, and global resources. 💚 Partner with us! We're looking forimpactful organizations to partner with The Bloom to bring connections, resources, and opportunities to our global community.
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🌍 Bridging Gaps: An NGO which provides microloans for entrepreneurs from the Global South to establish their own businesses by raising donations from the Global North. They're working with local partners in 5 different countries to co-create community microlending initiatives, based on donations which are converted into interest-free loans, and recently partnered with UNHCR to scale this work to empower 60 local refugee entrepreneurs to start their social businesses in Uganda. Recently they won the UNHCR's refugee-led innovation fund 🎉
🇧🇷 Associação Dos Migrantes Indigenas Roraimö: The Association of Indigenous Migrants (AMIR) is located in Brazil, and it is dedicated to the integration of indigenous worldviews into digital livelihoods, emphasizing the importance of cultural preservation as well as assisting refugee women’s economical inclusion by professional empowerment and entrepreneurship. AMIR works with indigenous communities and their traditional knowledge and perspectives. They integrate this into modern digital practices, community building using sustainable and culturally relevant economic opportunities. Through digital storytelling, technology training, entrepreneurship training AMIR supports the empowerment of indigenous women, to help them actively participate in the economy in a digital way as well while honouring their cultural heritage.
🇨🇩 Remember Youth for Change:For 18+ years the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has been embroiled in a bitter civil war that has affected over 40,000 children from the ages of 6-16. Conscripted child soldiers form 30% of soldiers operating in various militia groups in the DRC, according to the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC. Remember Youth for Change (RYC) is a registered non-profit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since 2016 we have been working with youth impacted by the ongoing civil war, with special attention paid to former child soldiers. Our mission is to bring hope for traumatized youth affected by war in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Together, Bridging Gaps and RYC are empowering refugee women and former child soldiers through entrepreneurship education and community microloans.
🌍 CONCAT: The first digital web design and development led by refugees and women from countries of conflict. They offer design, development, SEO and advertising services which are affordable, top quality and provide employment to some of the worlds most marginalised people. They're happy to offer discounted services to the Bloom network given the aligned missions to create a more equal and inclusive world 🤍
🌍Riding the Rainbow: A platform fostering connections and aiding young refugees globally. Originally created to help distribute sport items for Ukrainian war refugees in Luxembourg, it has evolved into a global app that facilitates the donation of many different types of pre-loved items by directly connecting residents to those in need. Organizations working with refugees can also showcase their work and equally announce their relevant activities, everything in one map!
🌍Generation Restoration: Aims at turning refugee camps into thriving places of hope by introducing permaculture, regenerative agriculture, agroforestry and train-the-trainer-programs there. They were founded last year and have their first big project in Uganda this year.
🇺🇬Afri-Youth Network: Afri-Youth Network is a refugee-led community based organization in Northern Uganda, with the goal of inspiring, mentoring, and empowering youths to achieve self-reliance and sustainable development. Founded in October 2020 by a South Sudanese refugee, Malish James, the organization focuses on development of young individuals socially, economically. The objectives of Afri-Youth Network include providing a platform for youth expression, empowering them in social technology and economic activities, while advocating for unity, and fighting poverty. Since partnering with Bridging Gaps in 2022 they are helping young refugees start their social businesses without the risk of falling into debt. Afri-Youth Network is fighting for the achievement of many of the United Nations sustainable development goals. Connect with the co-founder of Bridging Gaps and ask her anything on her journey supporting the growth of a refugee-led non-profit: she's hosting an "Ask me Anything" in our learning platform 🥰
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Elevating the Voices of Women in Agriculture: Nominate yourself and gain the exclusive opportunity to be selected as one of the 30 under 30 exceptional young Africans, who lead projects that contribute to the empowerment of women farmers. Benefits include: gain global visibility, expand your network, and get the chance to win the prestigious $5,000 EVWA Champion Award.
💜 Mentorship
📆 Details: June 18 17:00 CET, 11:00 EST, 20:30 IST ✨ Mentor's impact journey:Alyanna started her career in hardware manufacturing and then went on to design circular systems and products to support agricultural waste management. She also worked closely across national and local government agencies to develop unified and inclusive policies, programs, and activities towards circularity. Now at 2X Global, she is able to fulfill her mission to uplift women and girls by working with different types of investors who are shifting the systems of finance. 🌍 RSVP: Register for our social impact learning platform and you will find all details under "Events."
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Our community includes some of the most incredible local leaders in social impact across the globe 🌍 In our learning platform, they have begun to build a Collaborative Library📚This week, the spotlight is on Nanditha, who contributes resources for careers in gender equality to the Collaborative Library.
How did you get to where you are today in gender equality? I started with a corporate job in one of the world’s largest multinational corporations, considered a dream job by many back then. The job did not sit well with me towards the end and I struggled to perform - I did not see why my job mattered and that began to bother me. This led me to quit my job and explore social impact as a career space. My exploration in a classroom, this time on the other side of it as a teacher in a government school for primary students, was the starting point and a huge catalyst for what came later. I understood how I thrived in work that gave me a sense of purpose and which helped others in some way. This led me to then seek out and learn more about work in the social impact space and figure out which social issues I cared about (gender and education), reach out to and find mentors and internships, learn on the ground, and then begin working in this space with organizations that do phenomenal work to empower girls and young women.
What resources do you feel would benefit people the most in learning about careers in gender equality?
I often find myself turning to books more than any other medium to know more about communities and lived experiences that are very different from mine. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Seeing Like A Feminist by Nivedita Menon, and Karukku by Bama are books I would highly recommend for people who want to know more about the ways in which gender norms and other intersections (such as caste) often put women at a disadvantage.
Who are three people to follow in this space who have influenced your journey?
Kirthi Jayakumar (also a bloomer 😉) who runs The Gender Security Project, Yashasvini Rajeshwar who runs AuxoHub, and Neelam Jain who runs PeriFerry. Kirthi was my starting point for developing a foundational understanding of gender issues and feminism - it was from her (and her then organization The Red Elephant Foundation) that I learnt more about intersectional feminism, intersecting identities, and the various ways in which all of this affects our lives differently. While that foundational learning proved crucial, it was through conversations over the years with Yashasvini that I learnt more about gender issues and the various ways in which organizations are working on solutions for these pressing problems on the ground. My understanding of sexual minorities and trans people in particular comes from my short stint with PeriFerry, founded by my college junior, Neelam Jain. It was an experience that gave me access into the lives and struggles of trans people and I had the opportunity to meet a lot of people from the community and learn from them. These three people have influenced my journey (and my career) in a lot of ways. Why did you decide to become a Gender Leader at The Bloom and what is your dream vision for those who visit the Collaborative Library in our platform?
As a person who did not go to the best institutions or had academic knowledge relevant to the social impact space, there were a lot of struggles I had to go through to find work in this space, especially in the initial years. My acquaintances and networks helped me back then, and that’s exactly what I hope to pay forward through The Bloomby being a Gender Leader. I envision the Collaborative Library to be a welcoming resource page for all those who are anxious, uncertain, or worried about either getting into the impact space as a career option or for those looking to switch between different causes as their field of work. Connect with Nanditha and read through the growing library of social impact resources in the Collaborative Library of our learning platform 🌍
grow new roots
Hand-picked job opportunities and employers we love around the world, selected from a diverse team of social impact leaders behind the scenes at The Bloom who are excited for you to grow new roots in your career.
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