Entrepreneurs

Six years ago Alice and Anita fulfilled their dream: they opened Libreria Corteccia, an independent bookshop founded in November 2014 in Milan and specialized in books for children, teenagers, Italian/foreign fictions and photography. However, Corteccia is not just a...

Almaz recalls her mother busily operating her successful home-based beer brewery as a child. People loved the local, Eritrean beverage and the income helped her mother to better support her family during the difficult war days. However, once the conflict...

Iranian friends, Sepehr Borumand and Sam Rastegar, always dreamt of becoming entrepreneurs. The two friends worked alongside each other as managers in a Tehran-based company and later, Sam married Sepehr’s sister, making them a closenit family. Until Sam left for...

   Henri Kelmendi was three years old when his parents decided to flee from their homeland Albania to Germany. Looking back, Henri is very grateful for the warmly welcome in the new country and remembers that his parents were lucky enough to find jobs quickly. He used...

   Nael Fayad is from Syria and worked his whole life in the saddlery and upholstery business in his home country. Together with his wife and two daughters he lived a comfortable life until the day he had to make the decision to flee to Germany. That was five years...

Abdulrahman Basalama, 24, is a young entrepreneur that was born in Yemen and left the country when he was 18 years old. He started studying economics in Leipzig but dropped the course because he was depressed as he was studying and his mind was completely shattered....

Rahel Zemuye can hardly remember her arrival to Germany many years ago. She was too small when she escaped the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia with her single mother and her two siblings - but what she remembers is that Eritrean culture has always been part of her...

“Nasco Feeding Minds aims at ‘feeding’ the minds of young people in Ghana through digital education. Through 23 schools in Ghana, we are accessing more than 5000 students, equipping them with the tools to help them having quality innovative education.” Ousman Umar is...

Zina Abboud is a young Syrian from Aleppo. She left her country to lead a decent life, protect herself and start a new future. Three years ago, SPARK organization interviewed Zina Abboud as a part of THSN project. Zina introduced talked about her journey and success...

Petra Botekova is 28 years old and was born in Slovakia. She once came to Germany as an expat and built a promising career path for herself. Nevertheless, she felt she did not have enough freedom and space to try out new things.  Working for a company meant to her to...