Amira Guebsi

Amira is a 27-year-old energy engineer passionate about civil society and its role in national development, open to new ideas and flexible about working through challenging issues.

Since her graduation from the National Engineering School of Monastir she has been doing various activities such as volunteering, organizing events, and coaching students in social entrepreneurship.

In September 2016, she joined Jamaity’s communications team for a three-month internship where she learned diverse social media strategies such as  live coverage of civil society events, reporting, and writing articles.

As a Lazord Fellow, she joined the Arab Institute for Human Rights organization as a Communications Assistant, promoting human rights and citizenship values in marginalized areas.

Abdelmajid Djebali

Abdelmajid is 24 years old and he specializes in political communication,  a branch that combines political sciences and communication sciences .

In April 2017, he was selected by the European Union to attend a training on religious tolerance and the acceptance of differences in Lecce, Italy, with the Erasmus+ program. After that, he received the Youthpass certificate from the European Union.

In June 2017, he was selected by the US Department of State to participate in the Middle East Partnership Initiative Student Leaders Program in the USA. He learned about project management and politics in the USA at Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois.

He is able to manage his time, and to devote it to fully focusing on his mission; therefore he is available for any given position. In general, he is innovative, creative, and supportive. He has a great capacity to work, especially on a team. In addition, he has different skills relating to negotiation, communications, and solving issues.

He has had different positions at well-known organizations in Tunisia such as Jamaity (Jamaity.org), where he was given the opportunity to work with various stakeholders and actors, and was able to gain different skills in the fields of human rights and community development.

Hamdi Kammoun

Hamdi Kammoun is an accountant who graduated from the Institute of High Commercial Studies in Sfax, Tunisia, in 2015.

Throughout his life, he has participated in different activities, but he believes that the real journey started in 2010 when he became a member of ATL MST SIDA, the Tunisian Association for the Fight against Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS. Being a part of this association allowed him to test his abilities of teamwork, team building, leadership, and planning. This experience highlighted the butterfly effect concept as a way of change – simple little steps can lead to major change in the long run.

In 2017, he was accepted to the Lazord Fellowship program and was placed at ATUPRET. This started another journey of self-exploration that is full of new experiences, benefits, and partnerships.

Yosra T. Karoui

Yosra is a young and motivated Tunisian who studied English literature, civilization, and linguistics, and then went on to pursue her master’s degree in translation. She is passionate about learning new languages, acquiring new skills, and being more engaged in civil society.

She started to discover civil society in Tunisia when she joined Junior Chamber International (JCI). Since then, she has been involved in several initiatives on peace building, humanitarian ties, and youth.

As a Lazord Fellow, she was placed at Search for Common Ground Tunisia where she worked simultaneously on two projects under the big theme of peace building. The fellowship year allowed her to acquire more skills and be more engaged and ambitious.

Yosra has fully benefited from the Lazord Fellowship experience, which is a step forward in civil society in her country – a step that keeps broadening the sphere of her ambitions.

Azza Gamal

Azza obtained her BS in English from the University of Arts. She has been involved in civil society for more than five years and has received several certificates for various training courses in human rights.

Azza has held the following positions:

• Secretary receptionist & HR at Yemen Milestone for oilfield services Co. Yemen –Sana’a-Yemen
• Secretary, receptionist & HR at Yemen Air Fright Agency Sana’a-Yemen
• Assistant Programmer Officer at “TDF” association –Sana’a-Yemen

Azza has also volunteered at the organizations found below:

• Women’s leadership program NDI “Yemen”
• Arab Institute for Human Rights in the resource center
• Assistant Project Coordinator in Citizenship  at the Education club and protection for refugees and asylum-seekers in Tunisia

Azza has been an asylum seeker in Tunisia since 2015.

Houssem Jebali

Houssem is a 25-year-old Tunisian with a master’s degree who has been active in Tunisian civil society since 2015. Houssem is an enthusiastic activist who has participated in several workshops and trainings in Tunisia and abroad to broaden his knowledge on, and to promote youth-related issues. After finishing his one-year fellowship program with the Lazord Foundation, he was recruited by a company based in Qatar. Today, Houssem lives in Qatar and started his professional life as a translator, the career of which he has always dreamt. He is still committed to promoting youth-related issues, especially after gaining useful skills and tools during the Lazord Fellowship that will help him to continue to achieve his goals.

Farah Kanzari

Farah is 25 years old, and she specializes in fundamental English. She started her career in civil society 6 years ago. In 2016 she was selected to be a delegate of the North Africa International Model United Nations (NAIMUN) that took place at the American University in Tunisia. Two months later, she was selected to be the president of New Partnership for Africa’s Development in the African Union Model (AUM) that took place at the South Mediterranean School of Business (MSB) in Tunisia. She has held different positions in her career: she was a reporter with the International Institute of Debate, through which she received a TOT training and participated in the café-talk competition as a moderator, before becoming a project coordinator at NAMAA Association for Development and Democracy.

She has had the opportunity to work with different organizations in Tunisia where she  has worked with different stakeholders and actors, thus, being able to gain different skills in the fields of communications and community development.

She is ambitious, hard-working, able to work under pressure, and is innovative and creative. Farah believes that she has learned a lot through the ups and downs that she has experienced in her life.

Sirine Boukhchim

Sirine is an interior designer who graduated from the Higher Institute of Arts and Crafts of Sfax in 2017.

Over the years, she has participated in different activities, but the real journey started when she became a leader of the Tunisian Scouts, allowing her to test her skills in team work, team building, leadership, and planning. This experience highlighted the butterfly effect concept as a way of change – simple little steps that lead to major change in the long run.

In 2017, she received the Lazord Fellowship and was placed at ATL MST SIDA, starting another journey of self-exploration through her work on projects on communication and logistics.

Through the Erasmus + program, Sirine traveled to Latvia and Spain. This intercultural exchange gave her a golden opportunity to gain new experiences and to enrich her personality.

Sirine is currently pursuing a master’s degree in interior design while working as a freelance interior architect.

Her life’s journey is full of new experiences, benefits, and partnerships.

Emna Trabelsi

Emna Trabelsi is a 23-year-old English graduate with an ongoing master’s degree in journalism. During her university life, she started exploring and discovering the Tunisian civil society by joining several NGO’s and attending various human rights trainings.

In 2017, she became a Lazord Fellow and placed at Jamaity to begin a new experience of self-development and evolution.

Maroua Mimouni

Maroua Mimouni is an industrial biology engineer who graduated from the National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (INSAT), in Tunis, in 2015.

During her university life, she participated in different volunteering activities within student clubs. She assisted in the organization of the first edition of the National Volunteering Day in Tunisia, in 2013. She contributed in other events and campaigns such as “Smile for me,” for children with cancer.

Her life as student at INSAT, was a very important and gorgeous experience which gave her the opportunity to meet inspiring people and to develop her personal skills, like teamwork, solidarity, autonomy and sense of responsibility. In 2017, she was accepted as a Lazord Fellow and placed at the International Institute and Debate starting her first journey to discover civil society outdoors of INSAT. She assists in grants management of the organization. It is another experience of self-exploration allowing her to test her capabilities and learn many skills such as communication especially in the professional environment.

For the coming years, she has many ideas in her head. She is planning to get her master’s degree in management and to launch her own social project.