Meet Merye

Merye, 24 and married, has a small trading company for cosmetics and clothing imports that she is looking to expand. She would like to improve her business acumen and learn how to access financing to grow her small enterprise.

"YouthInvest will help support us and our families by giving us business knowledge," she says. "We will learn how to do market studies, how to choose a store location and how to assess whether our business idea will be successful or not.

"I could not afford to go to a formal school, and there is little opportunity for me to learn this in other ways, so this will be very valuable, for me and my family."

Through YouthInvest, MEDA hopes to reach out to 50,000 youth in Morocco and Egypt, where unemployment among the young is a major social problem. This project is bringing new hope to young people, who can now see a better future for themselves and their families.

To learn more about MEDA's work in Morocco and Egypt through YouthInvest, watch a short MEDA Moment video.