Entrepreneurs

“Learn about the culture of a new country, region, and city first. Learn from your mistakes. Know yourself, your strengths and your weaknesses.” In 2014, Mohamed Alshartah travelled from Syria to Belgium as a refugee. A new and different culture has motivated him to...

After completing her bachelor’s degree in Organizational Communication in 2007, Marielle started her first business in affiliate marketing for a global skin care brand based in the United States. When she moved to Belgium from the Philippines last year to In Belgium,...

Azhar Mohamad, 25 years old, used to worked in the textile industry in his home country of Bangladesh. He as supervisedor of a department of 40 people. Yet, when he arrived in Italy, he realised technology is evolving, and saw a it could become a business opportunity...

Every day, Zoryana and her mother open the shutters of the shop, turn on their baking ovens, start the mixer and bring their colourful creations worthy of weddings, baptisms and communions from the fridge to the display cabinates at the front of their shop. Zoryana is...

Mykola, originally from Ukraine, moved several years ago to Italy and has been living in Naples for 10 years. Like many others, he was looking for a bright future for him and his family. Mykola and his father started to work as labourers. He was saving up the money to...

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...