It's been 3 years since we started our journey of reskilling and employing the forgotten refugees living in UNHCR camps across the globe. We were hoping to reach 500 refugee graduates by the end of 2021 but we crossed 1,000 graduates across 4 refugee camps. We set out to reach 10,000 by the end of 2022. This is our story so far. #refugees #unhcr #Kakuma #GigEconomy #FutureOfWork #reskilling #refugee #innovation #management #humanresources #digitalmarketing #technology #creativity #future #futurism #entrepreneurship #careers #markets #startups #marketing #socialmedia #leanstartups #economy #socialnetworking #branding #advertisingandmarketing #money #sustainability #personalbranding #education #productivity #socialentrepreneurs #sales #fundraising #strategy #culture #business #leadership #artificialintelligence #hiring #jobsearch #jobseekers #africa #hr #job #contentmarketing #research #ai #storytelling #entrepreneur #onlineadvertising #social UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency Norwegian Refugee Council Danish Refugee Council / Dansk Flygtningehjælp United Nations UNDP World Food Programme Techfugees World Economic Forum UNRWA Global Shapers Community Hootsuite Lumen5 ClickUp Canva LinkedIn Microsoft Google Twitter LinkedinSales Mastercard Foundation Social Alliance for Impact Research (SAIR) Social Impact Capital Impact Investing Institute
StepUp.One
Civic and Social Organizations
Re-Skilling Refugees and Connecting them to Opportunities that Pay
About us
Of the 84 million refugees, 6 million live in 100s of refugee camps with a $72 billion pent-up productivity. Most of these forgotten refugees have lived in these camps for decades without becoming productive. One of them was Mohamed Hassan from the Kakuma Refugee Camp, who challenged 1000s of CEOs at WEF Davos 2019 in response to Satya Nadella's question. Inspired by this challenge, we started a social impact enterprise reskilling thousands of refugees into digital professionals and deploying them with global clients to deliver digital marketing, sales and recruitment. Together with UNHCR, we started a pilot of 5 refugee graduates in 2019 and have crossed 1000 refugee graduates across eight different camps. Over three years, we have supported hundreds of companies, from start-ups to scale-ups to billion-dollar corporations. This year, we plan to scale the venture to 2,000 refugee graduates in Kakuma and then take it to the top 10 refugee camps. We aim to reskill and employ 1 million of these forgotten refugees in 1 marketable skill and deliver $1 billion in revenue by 2032. You can join us in this human revolution where the global community comes together to address the refugee crisis in the most dignified way. 1. Hire us to build your brand and thought leadership, grow your network and generate leads - Client 2. Lend us your shoulders so that we can stand tall and be heard - Brand Ambassador / Influencer 3. Join us to get reskilled as a Digital professional and work for global clients - Refugee Graduates Today most of our clients are either Founders, Recruiters & Corporate Executives. We help them become thought leaders on topics of their choice while increasing their network with people that matter. We then move to generate leads from both existing and new connections. Once lead generations start to deliver results, we hyper-scale in market segments that have delivered results.
- Website
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https://StepUp.One
External link for StepUp.One
- Industry
- Civic and Social Organizations
- Company size
- 1,001-5,000 employees
- Headquarters
- London
- Type
- Educational
- Founded
- 2019
- Specialties
- Refugees, UNHCR, Reskilling, Social Media Marketing, Technology, Digital , Training, Refugee Camp, Digital Marketing, Smart Skilling, Social , Social Media, Marketing, GigEconomy, FutureOfWork, ReImagine, Skill, B2B, Access, Education, and Jobs
Locations
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Primary
London, GB
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Kakuma, KE
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Kiziba, RW
Employees at StepUp.One
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Nigel Stonham
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Mohamed Anis
Leveraging Generative AI to Reskill and Employ One Million Overlooked and Underserved People
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Msembwa Lulongha
Coordinate and support Digital Learning in Basic Education
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nadha dawood
Façade Consultant- Expert Witness ◼️ Director at Wintech ◼️ Social Impact Volunteer
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