BuildPalestine Fellowship Program

At BuildPalestine, we’re committed to amplifying the work of the most impactful and innovative social enterprises in Palestine

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Meet Palestine’s most innovative social enterprises

BuildPalestine fellowship program is designed for social enterprises committed to solving Palestine’s most pressing challenges. Our role is to connect fellows with the expertise, resources, and funds needed to maximize their impact.

Reasons to become a fellow:

Upskill

Access knowledge, advice, and support from experienced mentors specialized in supporting social enterprises

Enroll in advanced workshops to help grow your social enterprises. Topics include impact measurement, fundraising, and online presence

Network

Share your story with the global BuildPalestine community through curated content

Gain priority to participate in our public events and get recommended for international opportunities

Fundraise

Make direct connections with impact investors, and grant matching opportunities

Crowdfund from BuildPalestine’s global network of supporters

Selection Criteria

Social Impact

Your solution has a positive, meaningful, and sustainable effect on the Palestinian community and particularly for those at disadvantage or contributes to solving a social or environmental issue

Social Innovation

Your approach should be more efficient and/or effective than the alternative available solutions or should provide a new solution to a problem not yet addressed

Launched Solution

Your product should be launched with a track record or you have a tested MVP. Idea stage projects aren’t eligible for the fellowship

"The BuildPalestine fellowship program was a great experience for me; I was able to communicate with leaders from Palestine, learn from their expertise and mutually share knowledge. I liked the diversity of the sessions provided; they included important topics that helped me grow as an entrepreneur and apply practical tools to the development of my startup. The BuildPalestine team has also helped us launch a crowdfunding campaign that funded our services in Gaza. I would like to continue being an active part of this amazing network."

Majd Manadre, Co-founder at Hakini

"Joining BuildPalestine's fellowship program was a great opportunity to improve our business and develop it further. I learned a lot about social entrepreneurship and met with great like-minded entrepreneurs committed to achieving social and environmental impact. The support provided by BuildPalestine team and the program mentors was essential to help us align our work with the envisioned impact and refine our impact generation approach. Thank you BuildPalestine!"

Baker Bozeyeh, co-founder and CEO of Flowless

"The fellowship exposed me to a diverse network of local social entrepreneurs where we have an open and safe place to exchange ideas, discuss challenges, and explore opportunities together. Not to mention the rich knowledge I gained from the mentors and experts in the field which helped me better understand some concepts and techniques. I don't consider the fellowship as a short-term relationship with BuildPalestine! instead, it's a strategic one where we can get support and give back too. Hopefully, BuildPalestine will stay part of our support system."

Hiba Awaysa, co-founder and CEO of Sawaed19

Got an innovative project?

Thank you for your interest in the 2023 Fellowship Program. We are no longer accepting applications for this year, but we encourage you to apply for next year!

Apply for the 2024 fellowship program

Flowless contributes to water sustainability by helping water utility companies increase water supply efficiency. We provide a comprehensive system that utilizes emerging technology to monitor and control water networks and provide insights for process automation and fault detection. The system uses smart devices to collect real-time data from water networks and a web platform equipped with artificial intelligence to provide interpretations and analytics that influence active decision-making. We are committed to achieving impact in water sustainability. Flowless solutions would contribute to providing more reliable and safe water for thousands of people while increasing feasibility for utility companies and reserving water resources.

Founders: Baker Bozeyeh, Osama Hnini, and Eyad Arafat

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Hakini fills the gap in therapy support for people from Palestine and the Arab world, we use technology to increase access to therapy in a private and user-friendly way to help our beneficiaries get the right guidance and support they are looking for and improve their personal well-being.

Founders: Sondos Mleitat and Majd Manadre

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HomelyCare supports healthcare seekers who are unable to reach healthcare services easily. We also provide free health care to poor people who can’t afford it.

Founders: Fekri Mohammed, Alaa AlShawish and Muatafa Naim

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MNJM is the first Palestinian company for Solid Waste collection and sorting from houses, campiness, and organizations and replace them with basic products to encourage people to participate. The project focuses on raising awareness through the application of quick services and modern technology.
The next phase of the project is to develop the first e- shop for recycled materials.

Founders: Aya Sarsour and Yousef Khatib

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Jusoor is an EdTech Startup that offers interactive simulation, virtual labs for students and educational institutions; Especially in STEM subjects. Jusoor platform also helps schools and universities which lack the access to physical labs due to many reasons, such as costs of labs and experiments, pandemic and lockdowns, risks or experiments, available spaces…etc.

Founder: Ameen AboDiak

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We, doctors, face a real problem in medical care delivery, that is the crowdedness in clinics with patients mostly complaining from simple conditions. Our project is the only online consultation platform that lessens that burden in our target market “Palestine” and connects patients to doctors from their homes.

Founder: Abdalrahman Ahmed

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Greeners reverse the way that fertilizers are produced, so instead of producing massive amounts of CO2 while making fertilizers, Greeners adsorb the Harmful CO2 emissions and use them to make 10 different kinds of liquid fertilizers that have different nutritional characters for the plants. To mimic air pollution while feeding the increasing numbers of people. Greener’s target farmers and home growers starting in Palestine and moving to many markets in the Middle East and Africa, which needs Greeners product because it’s more suitable for their soil, climate, and budget. Our direct competitors are chemical fertilizers companies as Haifa group and Yara International. Greeners are characterized by their low cost, high effectiveness, and reducing costs on farmers from cleaning the soil of chemicals. Greeners Usually deliver their products directly to customers. Our pilot proved our ability as a startup to lead a big business in the future.

Founders: Lina Zahayka, Noor Dababat, Haytham Sharabati and Tasneem Khamaiseh

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BatteryDoctor is the first device to revive damaged batteries. In Gaza, individuals and institutions rely heavily on batteries, which create a lot of poisonous waste. In Battery Doctor, we designed technology to revive damaged batteries up to 80%. Therefore, battery consumers can now re-use their batteries.

Founders: Daliaa Abardaweel

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Foras.ps is an online platform\ website that provides you with all available opportunities in Palestine and for Palestinians (Trainings, internships, voluntary work, jobs, freelance jobs, workshops, grants, funds, calls for proposals, and scholarships).
Our audience is young Palestinians who seek to be different and want to seek unique opportunities. We want it to the 1st destination for youth to find what they are looking for.

Founders: Safaa Ayyad

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Sawaed19 brings all key players in the volunteerism ecosystem in one space, providing them with valuable services, starting with a structured volunteering community where they can create profiles, network, and access all volunteering initiatives, implementing smart matching (where right volunteers are just in the right place), having direct communication channel between stakeholders through chatting service, and managing the initiatives through Volunteering Management System

Founders: Hiba Awaysa, Leen AbuBaker, Maisa Shami, and Moath AbuRaed

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BuildPalestine Fellowship Program

Meet Palestine’s most innovative social enterprises

Reasons to become a fellow:

Upskill

Network

Fundraise

Selection Criteria

Social Impact

Social Innovation

Launched Solution

Designing innovative and sustainable solutions despite all challenges, meet Palestine’s most promising social entrepreneurs

Got an innovative project?

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