A Social Entrepreneur’s Perspective On Power
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Soraya Salti, senior vice president MENA of INJAZ Al-Arab, gives “A Social Entrepreneur’s Perspective on Power,” at the Skoll World Forum 2009. She says we have drifted far from the days when education and learning was critical. “The education systems across the Arab world have failed its youth,” she said.
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Senior Vice President of Middle East/North Africa for Junior Achievement Worldwide,
INJAZ al-ArabSoraya Salti was Senior Vice President of Middle East/North Africa for Junior Achievement Worldwide, INJAZ Al-Arab. Her efforts had led to the expansion of INJAZ to 15 countries, in the most successful private public sector partnership in education reaching more than 1 million youth, in the region with the world’s highest youth unemployment. She won the 2006 Schwab Social Entrepreneur award for Jordan, became a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and was the first Arab woman to win the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
The Skoll Foundation mourns the loss of Soraya Salti, founder of INJAZ al-Arab. In 2015, Soraya and her sister, Jumana, both died tragically and unexpectedly.
