Word: alshaikh
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...Rami Alshaikh, 24, learned of the program as he was finishing his accounting degree last year at the Islamic University of Gaza, also home to the foundation. He watched the unsuccessful job hunts of countless friends and feared that he wouldn't be able to find work. Having lost his father a few years ago to surgical complications, he has six siblings and a mother to support, so he enrolled in the Education for Employment program after graduation and promptly landed an accountant job for CCC in the U.A.E. He sends at least a third of his $1,500 monthly...
Bruder's rather lofty goal is to replicate Alshaikh's experience across the region by expanding the program into a dozen countries, training and placing up to 50,000 young people in jobs in five years' time. But what he really wants is for the idea to replicate itself. "Nothing would make me happier than governments banding together to make job creation in the region a priority," he says. And perhaps nothing else can make the region a more secure place...
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