AMMAN - Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Knowledge Forum
(TAG-KF), a member of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Global (TAG.Global), with the support
of ‘Where To Film’ Production Company, has presented awards to the three
winning teams of the UNICEF Social Innovation Program in Za’atari and Azraq
Syrian refugee camps.

The program was organized by the ‘Majlisna
for Societal Development’ targeting young people aged between 16-24 in the camps,
providing them with the physical space, mentorship, curriculum/technical
training, seed funding, and networking opportunities needed to help them
identify problems in their own communities and to come up with solutions to
make them better.

During the program, 176 young people (71
teams) received training on social innovation and entrepreneurship in 2020;
where 32 of them had developed social projects. The program has already reached
up to 9,200 young people and produced 300 sustainable ventures. In the final
phase of the program, three out of 21 winning teams were selected.

Awards were presented to the top three
winning teams (25 participants), including TAG DC Tablet, that is manufactured
by the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh for Technology (TAGTech).

Majlisna for Societal Development Programs
Manager, Dr. Abdallah Jbarah, expressed his gratitude and appreciation for the
efforts and the unlimited support of TAG-KF throughout the Program period. He
also thanked TAG-KF and ‘Where To Film’ for donating and providing tablets to
the winners of the Social Innovation Program as a gesture of support.

Dr. Jbarah further stressed that this
cooperation is considered a model for strengthening the concept of corporate
responsibility and genuine partnership between the public and the private
sector with the other civil society institutions, towards providing the youth
with the needed support,  expanding the scope of their opportunities and
offering them real business incubators to develop their ideas and innovations.

For his part, Mr. Fadi Daoud, executive
director of TAG-KF and TAG.Global Education and Youth consultant, praised the
Forum’s national and humanitarian role in supporting initiatives that seek to
promote a culture of innovation among the youth, especially in refugee camps;
that have been always a source of creativity and innovation. He further
affirmed the Forum’s pride in being a member of the jury of the Program’s
various phases, in collaborating with Majlisna to achieve the development and
national goals.

For his part, Co-founder and
Director-General of ‘Where To Film’, Mr. Faris Halaseh, emphasized the
importance of developing and investing in local content as well as empowering
the youth in various sectors, by attracting global and local projects. That is
in addition to making the local community involved in the production process,
which creates new job opportunities, cultural and artistic exchanges.

Majlisna for Societal Development (Civic
Jordan) is a non-governmental civil society institution and the local partner
of Civic UK. Its mission is to work with Syrian refugees and host communities
of those refugees to implement development projects that aim at building
capacities and promoting the principle of community integration of children and
youth. Majlisna also provides a healthy and stimulating environment for
learning, developing and enriching  youth knowledge.

‘Where To Film’ was founded in Jordan in 2019,
as the first company and online platform of its kind in the Middle East and
North Africa. It focuses on exploring and marketing the best places for film
making across the country to attract global film production projects and
provide production and logistics services on the ground.