Could a crowdfunding platform help build Palestine?
The BuildPalestine team / Photo courtesy of BuildPalestine
For many Palestinians, it’s all about rebuilding piece by piece. An estimated 90 percent of startups fail, but imagine how difficult it is to run one in Palestine, a country that faces multiple additional barriers, including occupation, limited finance and lack of control over market infrastructure.
Despite these challenges, BuildPalestine, a Ramallah-based crowdfunding platform for social impact projects, is determined to make a difference.
Besan Abou-Joudeh, a 26-year-old American with Palestinian roots, always wanted to connect the corners of the world. With very limited funds and knowledge, the economics major connected with now co-founder Derrar Ghanem, a political science graduate, to discuss the idea of creating a crowdfunding platform that would help rebuild Palestine, one campaign at a time.
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