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Entrepreneurship Education For Refugees in Arabic

Amman / Helsinki - Funzilife has today published an Arabic version of the entrepreneurship course ”Founder 101” in its mobile service. The six-week course provides versatile information on entrepreneurship from planning to setting up a business. The entrepreneurship course is free for users and fits perfectly as a part of integration services for immigrants of whom many speak Arabic.

Previously the Funzi service and its entrepreneurship course has been published in English and has been in use in several African countries since Autumn 2014. Thousands of users have passed the course and the feedback on its outcomes has been very positive.

Funzi is participating The Resilience Development Forum (RDF) Amman, hosted by the government of Jordan and convened by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on 8 and 9 November 2015 in Jordan as part of the Finnish foreign ministry delegation. Thanks to the Founder 101 -course’s mobile availability it can be utilized in other European countries, as well as in the countries of departure that suffer from wars and catastrophes, and in refugee camps.

“Funzi provides an agile way of learning and teaching, which can be applied to many different topics and needs. Since the study material is available via your own mobile phone, Funzi works efficiently in training and activating the asylum seekers. The cost of mobile teaching is only a fraction compared to traditional means of teaching”, says Tero Salonen, CEO of Funzilife.

RSS Feed Offers Real Time News Feed

Earlier Funzilife has also published the information package ”About Finland” targeted to asylum seekers. This service now provides both domestic and international news in real time broadcast as RSS feeds from YLE News in Finland. Through RSS feeds other timely information can be delivered as well, for instance from cities and immigration authorities.

Funzi service and the entrepreneurship course in Arabic are available at http://funzi.mobi

Further information:

CEO Tero Salonen, Funzilife Ltd. Tel. +358 (0)40 506 2440

Funzi communications: press@funzi.fi,www.funzi.fi

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Founded in 2014, Funzilife Ltd. produces mobile learning services. The first courses focused on job skills and entrepreneurship. The courses are designed to meet the information and educational needs of emerging markets. In 2015 Funzi launched services for asylum seekers arriving to Europe. One of Funzi’s design principles is that quality learning should be free to users.

Funzi courses are designed to provide a learning service with an immediate, practical impact on the lives of its users in circumstances where information can be delivered only via screen of mobile devices. Funzi service has reached thousands of users and is available world wide at mobile optimised page funzi.mobi, as an Android application and at Internet.org in seven different countries. Funzi takes its name from funza, that means learning in Swahili.

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Topics

  • Business enterprise

Categories

  • refugee
  • mlearning
  • migrant
  • european union
  • crisis
  • asylum-seeker

Founded in 2014, Funzilife Inc. produces mobile learning and information services. The first courses focused on job skills and entrepreneurship. The courses are designed to meet the information and educational needs of emerging markets. In 2015 Funzi launched services for asylum seekers arriving to Europe.

One of Funzi’s design principles is that quality learning should be free to users. All learning outcomes have an immediate, practical impact on the lives of the users. Funzi is designed mobile-first and optimized in every aspect for the screen that is most widely used in today’s world. Funzi is available at http://funzi.mobi, as a part of Facebook’s Internet.org in seven different countries, and as an Android app. Funzi takes its name from funza, that means learning in Swahili.

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