When Awena’s mentor, a notable French social entrepreneur, spoke at her graduation (Msc in Business Administration, major entrepreneurship, international project management from the Business School ESCP Europe) about the power of dreams and talent fulfillment, she reacted. She has been since traveling, volunteering and working in NGOs, international for profit and development organizations on most continents. She has sold customized hat boxes to demanding aristocrats in London, produced TV and radio programs in Germany with an EU Youth Program, supervised the communication from Egypt of a market leader up to the souq of electricity across the Middle East. Additionally, Awena has worked for the International Finance Corporation, helping to pave foundations for quality management trainings in Afghanistan to empower local businesses, strengthen non-financial services of partner financial institutions in the Middle East and reinforce access to finance to MSME. She looks forward to the Kiva fellowship in Kenya to contribute to expand access to finance to more local entrepreneurs. She lives between Cairo and Beirut.