SAMA For All

Our solution: promoting socio-economic inclusion of refugees and migrants. 
How? by facilitating and accompanying the refugee/migrant for an employment opportunity in the culture sector, promoting cultural diversity, building bridges of dialogue, and cultural exchange.
The integration is a fundamental criteria for any newcomer.

The outcome: developing employability skills and helping the refugee to find a job, he/she will contribute to his host country restart his life, and lives in dignity. Our methodology relies on revealing the potential of newcomers by helping them achieve their dreams.

Impact: socical cohesion and life stability for him and his family.

Problem: the barrier of finding a suitable job for any newcomer in the host country, especially in France.

Our solution is to accompany the refugee for a job opportunity.

How? We concluded in 2017 a partnership agreement with two museums (Orsay & Orangerie) in Paris for a training program in the cultural mediation that allows the beneficiary to discover the profession of Museum, maintain a social life, cultural practice and promote the professional integration. 

Our activities consists of:

1- training program in the cultural mediation in collaboration with museums.

        In 2017- 18: 17 trainees from 9 nationality joined the program, 8       candidates had interviewed, and 4 out 8 candidates got a job offer

        In 2019: 18 trainees from 5 nationality, 1 beneficiary signed an employment contract

         In 2020: 20 trainees from 11 nationality have joined the training program. 1 beneficiary got has signed an employment contract.

2- Specialized french lessons  around art and culture, aiming to raise the percentage of getting a job opportunity. 

3- Conversation club where locals communicate with newcomers in French in different subjects

Our solution solves the problem of the refugee in the host country.

How: by signing an agreement with most prestigious museums in Paris (Orsay& Orangerie) to train the refugees in cultural mediation.

our objectif to facilitate interactions and employment in the cultural sector, by shifting narratives and perceptions about refugees and migration. Our idea builds bridge of dialogue and culture exchange, involve the community into our project. We mobilize the students of colleges and universities to support us, they will help the newcomers to improve their French language. Our idea will help the people as well on move to secure their future.

Our mission is to promote professional integration in the French cultural sector. To move from empathy toward opportunity. The idea makes a change in the life of our beneficiaries, it turns the passive to active, changing newcomers' narrative through innovation, helping them to establish a network and potential contacts, help them reach next stage “call for action”. “when you are refugee you face the biggest challenge, I’ve faced, like most of the refugees and migrants, the prejudgment of the refugee by the local community, but today I feel more confident of myself and what I achieved” said one of our trainees. Myself, as a refugee I keep fighting to change the perception and mindset of neighbor. I am a role model for many of our beneficiaries, and they will be by their turn a role model for his/her fellow newcomers. With our commitment and engagement as team toward our partners, the agreement of MAHATTA was renewed.

The solution born from the need of living in dignity, enjoy the life, build a network with local.

The project responds to the need of cultural and socio-economic integration of the newcomer in the host country. 

We create an economic value and social bridge between the newcomer and the local community. With our project, the refugee/migrant becomes actor of his integration, we build relationship among the different members of community and we encourage a dialogue. We mobilize individuals, institutions and NGOs to come together and develop social cohesion. 

As a social change maker, we create innovative social solutions to resolve the problem of refugees' employment in their host country. We do not have for the time being a competitor(s) in our domaine

Our solution is unique because is a complete package, it's like a triangle with 3 sides, each side complete the other: social, cultural and economical integration, that lead to a complete social cohesion of the refugee. 

We are in process to develop e-learning French courses.

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Our short term solution - finding a job and restart the life in the host country will lead to a long term stability of the beneficiary and his family and he will be an economical contributor to his new country.

on other hand, we aim to facilitate the interactions and shifting narrative and perception about the refugees in the society.

We aim to change the narrative about newcomers by engaging new partners and create more jobs. 

Success criteria translates the number of new solutions we provide over time that align with the requirements of partners and the needs of beneficiaries, the outcome of the beneficiaries. Our KPIs are co-designed with our beneficiaries and partners and go beyond quantitative numbers. We want systemic change, and therefore are willing to work with a social impact.

Current number we are serving for 2020: 20 personnes

In one year the number will be 40

and in five year the number will be 200

Our goals within the next year will be:

-      Create a new sector of activity that will allow us to increase the number of beneficiaries.
-      Open the specialized French classes for a new category of public.
-      Develop the training program in collaboration with museums to meet the needs and the expectations of our beneficiaries.
-      Apply key indicators to know the impact of the training program on the beneficiaries’ lives.

The organization is running by one person, as an employee with full time job.

So we are lacking of human resources that allow us to develop our activities and expand to other territory.

A secure fund will help us to recrute more people.

By securing a new fund and involve the local community in our solution.

We concluded in 2017 a partnership agreement with two museums (Orsay & Orangerie) in Paris under the name of “MAHATTA”; It’s a training program for refugees/migrants that allow them to discover the profession of Museum, maintain a social life and cultural practice and promote their professional integration.

The agreement is renewed on yearly basis with same conditions.

We have one employee works as a full-time job.

we 3 persons as the board members.

15 persons are helping on volunteer basis.

Our team has different profiles but a common mission, and consists of founders, active members and partners, as well as French teachers and volunteers.

The team is passionate about making a difference in other people’s lives. He is well-positioned to deliver this experience because he excels at building links between local community and newcomers, the has the knowledge and skills in term of social innovation, personal experience of displacement, management and technical skills.

Our partnership agreement with two museums (Orsay and Orangerie) since October 2017.

Our partnership agreement with the French Ministry of Culture since June 2019.

Our partnership agreement with GHR since December 2019.

Our key customers are the cultural institutions.

Our beneficiaries are the refugees and migrants.

Value proposition

Beneficiaries

And we provide our beneficiaries the opportunity to join a free training program with prestigious museums in Paris and discover the job in museum.

A complete and personalized package to discover the cultural professional opportunities in France and to socially integrate with other refugees and locals.

Cultural institutions

A chance to play their role to integrate refugees in their CSR policy (social opportunity), and to recruit new employees with strong skills (language, public speaking, etc.) and different approaches (business opportunity),     

and the opportunity to play a role in social cohesion.

Customer relationships

Beneficiaries

-Support them through all the training process.

- personal follow up

- Involve their family

Cultural institutions

-Strong relationship

- Coordinator dedicated to the training program

- the agreement is renewed on yearly basis

 It's a combination of donations and grants/selling services.

We think to develop a strategy that ensure sustained fund resources and subsidize our project.

The training program with museums is the key value proposition and the benchmark of our organization, our priority is to maintain existing partnerships with Orsay & Orangerie museums and to expand to other Parisian museums in Paris. To take the project to the next level, we require human and financial resources. Should be selected for the fund, we will invest it in:

• Hiring a full-time employee to help us execute the strategic plan, strength the ties with community and bring on board new funding.
• Developing our online learning of specialized French courses to attract more and wide public.
•  Developing the conversation club on/offline and scale it to a larger level.
• Expand and develop activities to other cities in France and internationally.

As per our mission''creates employment opportunity for the refugee/migrant in the cultural sector'', with your partnership, we could reach wider public increase the number of beneficiary of our program, develop our activities in in a larger geographic area.

We would like to partner with all organizations that help inclusion and cohesion of newcomers in the host country mainly the refugees.

SAMA For All exists to create an employment opportunity for the refugee in the cultural sector.
Why culture?

Because in the mind of people, culture is for the elite and not for refugees, we want to break the prejudices, refugees do not only need shelter, food, but also culture because they have a rich culture.

The project responds to the need for cultural and socio-economic integration of the newcomer in the host country.

I am a refugee and I know very well how it is difficult to find a job and start from scratch.During the confinement period, most of the refugees were in a vulnerable situation, in anxiety and fear and they suffered from the lack of technology tools to stay in connection. most of them they couldn't follow our French classes online. Andan Prize for innovation in Refugee inclusion will help us to provide our beneficiaries with solutions that help to improve their life.