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July 14, 2025
Stories of resistance through learning with THRIVE Afghanistan

Barred from education and work under Taliban rule, Afghan women like Roqia, Arghawan, Nazanin, and Shayesta long to lear...

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October 13, 2021
How we use MEL at Kiron

How can an NGO ensure that it remains committed to its mission and accountable for its decisions?

Insights
September 21, 2021
Kiron x Deutsche Börse Group x Virtual Internships Mentoring Program

Together with Deutsche Börse Group and Virtual Internships, we are excited to announce a new opportunity for students to...

Case studies
August 4, 2021
Zaher’s story: Skill building as a life-long learner

I’m not a new graduate from public high school, but studying with Kiron has given me a new life.

Meet our students
July 28, 2021
Meet Ahmad: It's never too late to change careers

Two years after receiving a degree to become a pharmacist in Syria, Ahmad realized he lacked the passion to continue pur...

Meet our students
July 12, 2021
Remote Learning on the Kiron Campus – Lessons Learned Along the Way

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, online education has become a way of life for many students.

Insights
July 1, 2021
Building an inclusive learning environment for sustainable study success

Kiron and the H&M Foundation have successfully concluded their three-year-long collaborative project BLESS, having r...

June 14, 2021
Meet Sultan: From Kiron student to Cloud Computing Specialist

Originally from Salamiyah, Syria, 26-year-old Sultan was studying Physics at a university in his hometown, but had to mi...

Meet our students
April 28, 2021
Kiron Digital Launches Today

Since 2015, we at Kiron have been developing our online learning platform in order to provide free educational opportuni...

Insights
April 12, 2021
Kiron begins building the Digital Self Defense Center

In the digital age, many members of the civil society, NGOs and journalists feel that they are underprepared when it com...

Insights
March 31, 2021
Why NGOs should embrace digital transformation

In March 2020, not only did COVID-19 dominate our conversations, but also shrunk our workplace into laptop-sized dimensi...

Insights
February 17, 2021
Collective Impact Campus Q&A with PO Baptiste

As NGOs worldwide are working to ensure continuity of learning experiences for their communities, we are exploring a new...

Insights
February 10, 2021
5 hard skills to learn in 2021

The world is changing rapidly and with that comes a shift in high demand careers in the job market. The tech and digital...

Insights
November 23, 2020
YUFE launches Virtual Campus

Enabling students to study at 10 European universities online.

Press Release
November 17, 2020
Meet Elif: Overcoming barriers through language

One of the greatest barriers for refugees to receiving higher education or entering the job marketing is language. In Ge...

Case studies
November 12, 2020
Story of Change: Enes

One of the many initiatives designed under the H&M Foundation and Kiron’s targeted project, “Building a Learning Env...

Meet our students
September 16, 2020
Get to know Thaki – an org providing sustainable educational resources to refuge...

To celebrate World Refugee Day, we hosted Amplify Now, a 2-day virtual refugee conference which brought together student...

July 22, 2020
The movement continues – What’s next for Amplify Now?

2 days, 31 seminars, over 5000 participants from 80 countries, 40 organisations, and over 38,000 livestream participants...

July 21, 2020
BLESS: final year outlook

BLESS (Building a Learning Environment for Study Success), the three-year-long cooperation between the H&M Foundatio...

June 23, 2020
Our partner: SPARK – Digital and Soft Skills project

Kiron partners with SPARK, Injaz Lebanon and Berytech in order to deliver Online Mentoring on digital skills and literac...

June 23, 2020
Our partner: NRC – joint certificate program

The Norwegian Refugee Council Lebanon (NRC) and Kiron Lebanon have partnered in 2018-2019 to deliver blended learning pr...

Case studies
April 2, 2020
Kiron talks...

Our new format for a conversation on wide-open learning

Insights