Youmna El Khattam

Be The Change

Youmna is currently a senior student at the Faculty of Management and Technology at the Arab Academy for Science and Technology, studying Financial Management and Accounting. Youmna has been a volunteer in different Youth Development related activities and initiatives since 2006. She has participated in different events locally and internationally such as the 4th Arab Youth forum that was held in Alexandria, the International iEARN Youth Summit in Cairo as well as the Global Media Forum organizes by the DW-TV in Germany. She is currently a member in Siraj for Youth leadership and Development program, Save the Children, as well as Namaa for Sustainable Development an incubated project at Nahdet El Mahrousa NGO.

Youmna's project "Be the change" is a capacity building program for the volunteers of iEARN program (an international education and resources network) in order to transfer the knowledge they gained to school students participating in the iEARN program in different parts of Egypt. Through her project, Youmna was able to train 30 volunteers in IT, Media & PR, Fundraising, Facilitation & Logistics as well as creating Fundraising and Media & outreach strategic plans for the iEARN and action plans for two major projects of iEARN (YouthCAN and MDG).