We are back with stories of successful people and this time we will tell you about Eric Yuan.
Eric Yuan is a Chinese-American businessman, engineer and CEO of Zoom. After earning a master’s degree in geological engineering, he was inspired by Bill Gates, who spoke in Japan in 1995. It was Bill who motivated Eric to move to Silicon Valley to work.
Yuanyi hardly knew English at that time and applied to the embassy many times before getting a United States visa.
,, The reason Silicon Valley is the world’s innovation center is that it is an open culture that embraces diversity. You see people from all over the world, and when people from many different backgrounds come together, that’s where innovation comes from.”
Yuan founded Zoom in 2011, and just six years later, the platform was valued at $1 billion.
After that, Yun soon joined the club of tech billionaires like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos.
,, Being a solo founder allows you to move quickly. When you’re going up against massive, entrenched competitors, you have to Increase the speed of action. Having just one person in charge allows you to make decisions faster.”
The Successful Story Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
We are back with stories of successful people and this time we will tell you about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Alexandra is the youngest woman in history to be elected to Congress. Alexandra entered Boston University with a degree in economics and international relations. During his student days, he was an intern in the office of Senator Ted Kennedy. After the death of her father from cancer in 2008, Alexandria’s family began to experience a financial crisis, so she worked as a waitress to help support the family. During the 2016 presidential election, Alexandria worked as a volunteer organizer for Bernie Sanders, which deepened her practical knowledge of electoral activism. Later, he launched his first campaign for Congress. The 2018 campaign, which ran solely on volunteers and donations, surprised the political sector – Alexandria won 78% of the vote and defeated the congressional president.
“Only when we motivate disaffected voters to vote can we make a meaningful difference.”
Alexandria pays special attention to the “New Green Deal”, is involved in global environmental campaigns, and fights its politics racism, and economic hardship.
Online Meeting With Georgian NGOs
On October 13, within the framework of the “Step Forward” project, an online meeting was held between the initiative “Darchi” and youth non-governmental organizations operating in Georgia.
The purpose of the meeting was:
- To get to know the organizations participating in the meeting;
- Introduction to the mission of the initiative and implemented projects to youth organizations;
- Sharing of motivational, informational, and educational resources created within the framework of “Darchi” projects.
- Introduction of the project “Act for the youth integration!”;
- Discussion of topics of podcasts planned in the near future and joint recording;
- Enhancing relations between organizations and planning future cooperation.
The main aims of the project “One Step Ahead” are: Empowering youth workers and promoting social entrepreneurship; Creating and testing new ways of teaching Social Entrepreneurship; Creating innovative teaching methodologies, implementation, and promotion in partner countries; Sharing best practices and experiences, between the organizations that are working in the same field; Creating recommendations for the law makers to help the sector develop.
The “Stay” team thanks each organization for its involvement.
Act For The Youth Integration
On September 16, within the framework of the project ACT for Youth Integration. We held the first webinar which was led by the project manager, Giorgi Azariashvili. The main topics of the webinar were:
introduction to the project activities ACT! the concept and meaning of the concept; youth activism; Youth opportunities worldwide;
” Act for Youth Inclusion” is a hybrid project that combines a series of online webinars for German, Georgian and Armenian youth (in English), as well as physical, individual and team activities.
The project’s main goal is to promote young people’s involvement in solving local problems through youth activism. the project is implemented by 3 organizations:
Caucasus youth Nexus from Georgia“ CaYNex
” International Center of Youth Empowerment and Cooperation” from Armenia @IC-YEC
Euro-med youth Federation from Germany Euro-Med Youth Federation e. V. 
The webinar was full of interactive activities, including a question-and-answer opportunity as well as engaging discussion with participants..12 motivated and change-oriented young people from Georgia are involved in the project: Natia KhikhalashviliGocha GogsadzeElena GureshidzeVictoria ArakelianIlia AbuladzeTatia BedianashviliMariam GachechiladzeLisa PartsvaniaMarika GachechiladzeKatie JackeliDea MeshvelianKhatia ShavadzeThe project “Act for Youth Engagement” is implemented with the support of the EVZ Foundation of the German International Foundation EVZ Foundation.#YouthforPartnership#PowerofYouth#MEETUP#Creatingopportunities#ვქმნითშესაძლებლობებს#იმოქმედე
Training in Marneuli Municipality
On September 13, under the organization of the “Darchi” initiative, training was held in the 2nd public school of Marneuli, which was carried out within the scope of the “One Step Ahead” project. The students of the same school attended the training, the theme of the activity was: introducing the “Darchi” initiative to young people; social entrepreneurship; skills needed for leadership; Acquaintance with existing youth opportunities. The participants were also given various types of teamwork on social entrepreneurship and leadership. All young people were given certificates for the “Stay” initiative.
The project was implemented with the support of the Estonian Development Agency (ESTDEV) and the involvement of EVZ Young. Our organization thanks the 2nd public school of Marneuli and the students of the school for their cooperation.
CaYneX hosted another Erasmus + TC
Another successful completion of the Erasmus+ training course “It’s time to Understand”, within which we hosted young people in Bakuriani from July 30 to August 7. Up to 30 motivated young leaders from Georgia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, Germany, France, Italy, and Moldova gathered to work on issues of migration, human rights, self-development, and multiculturalism.
With the help of the training course and informal learning methods used during the course, participants deepened their existing knowledge about human rights and discrimination, migration analysis, intercultural dialogue, and personal development.
The project’s main goal is to promote an open dialogue among European youth around discriminatory issues, to lay the foundation for creating a culture of acceptance of different opinions, to strengthen future changemakers, and to bring them together in partnership. With the help of the training course, young people were also given the opportunity to prepare presentations and share their experiences, knowledge, and opinions with other participants.
One of the most essential components of the training course was a cultural exchange between young people and the creation of a tolerant environment.
Motivational Webinar with Founder of enterprise “Baia’s Wine”
📣 Another webinar from the series of motivational webinars has ended successfully
- The invited guest of the webinar was Baia Abuladze, the founder of “Baia’s Wine”.
- She e talked to us about the path he took in this field, shared his experience in this field and told us about the details that led to his success.
- Baia shares with us the challenges in the first stage of the enterprise: “In the first stage of the enterprise, it was very difficult and hard work, although I could see that this was the work that made me happy”
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