Aflatoun International
Yara Mansour is a skilled Project Manager with extensive experience in program development and implementation, currently working at Aflatoun International since September 2020. Prior roles include serving as a Program Officer at the House of Peace Foundation, where Yara facilitated workshops and community-led initiatives, and as a Program Assistant at Save the Children UK, overseeing emergency programs and team management. Earlier experience includes positions as a Quality, Safety and Environment Officer at Pikasso and a Junior Environmental Consultant at Geoflint, where Yara contributed to environmental assessments and compliance. Yara holds a Master's degree in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies from the American University of Beirut.
Aflatoun International
Empowering Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs with Social and Financial Skills for a Fairer Future Aflatoun International offers social and financial education to 10.5 million children and young people worldwide, empowering them to make positive change for a sustainable world. We empower children and young people by providing them with the tools to run their own social and financial enterprises, like our very own success story Kojo's Bikes. Our young entrepreneur decided to turn his life around with one simple idea: renting out his bike and saving the money for his education. Kojo's business has quadrupled since. He now has four bikes and plans on having bike shops all across Africa one day. There are many Kojo's out there so, in order to equip them all with the 21st-century skills, we create high-quality curricula, for different age groups. These are implemented by local partners and can be contextualised to local needs and specific circumstances, like youth employment, girls' empowerment and peacebuilding. Our educational material proves to be effective: it is one of the most well-researched life skills and financial education programmes globally and has been increasingly recognised as successful and innovative by The Brookings Institution and Harvard Graduate School of Education alike. You can get the full story on how we positively affect the next generation on www.aflatoun.org