World Refugee Day: Hawar’s Journey
Imagine having to run away and leave everything you’ve ever known, risking it all for a chance at a new life. This is the reality for countless migrants and refugees fleeing violence. This World Refugee Day, we honor their bravery and resilience by highlighting their stories. Hawar, Search’s Iraq Jobs…
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Jusoor (‘Bridges’): Building Bridges between Local Authorities with Youth and Communities
Funded by: Federal Foreign Office of Germany and implemented in partnership with Al-Thoria Center for Studies, Consultancies, and Training. Term: December 2021 – December 2024 (Phase II). Objective: Search for Common Ground (Search) is implementing a 36-month initiative with the overall goal of strengthening youth-centered participatory approaches to local governance…
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The Team – Hara United
Funded by: United States Embassy (Amman), Public Affairs Office. Term: October 2021 – June 2023. Objective: The Team is a multi-episode TV series, which Search has produced in 20 countries across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Search-Jordan leveraged the famous TV series to produce a web series called Hara…
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TechCamp Jordan (Hakkerha!): Entrepreneurial Approaches to Countering Disinformation & Misinformation
Funded by: US Embassy in Jordan, Public Affairs Section (in partnership with US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs). Term: September 2021 – October 2022. Objective: Search for Common Ground (Search) implemented a 12-month initiative to empower young Jordanian women and men to play an active role…
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A Window on Mount Zion: From Conflict to Dialogue and Cooperative Action
The Window on Mount Zion project implemented by Search for Common Ground (SFCG) in partnership with the Jerusalem Intercultural Center from 2015 to 2016, with financial support from the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), had at its core two main components: 1) Establishment and sustainment of a Jerusalem Forum…
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As We Pause Our Jobs Empowerment Program in Iraq*, A Legacy of Family Lives On
In a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northern Iraq, many parents struggle to meet their children’s basic needs. When emergency situations become long-term displacement, relief aid funding dries up, and people have to fend for themselves. We met Khernof, a widow with four children, in an IDP camp…
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Nadima Changes the Story for Young Brides Traumatized by ISIS
Nadima’s vision was so clear, she could imagine every element. She dreamed of opening a glamorous salon for women. The interior would be spacious and clean; painted a chic charcoal grey with mirrors and trim details picked out in gold. It would be a comfortable space for women to get…
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Holding onto our Shared Humanity in Israel and Palestine
Pain was a red-orange flame threatening to split Fatima’s* hips in half. Stress and trauma were ushering Fatima’s baby into the world before the baby was ready. Fatima fought for her about-to-be-born child’s life while bombs rained down on North Gaza. Under the explosions and her own grunts of pain,…
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