Jordan River Foundation

My work with my friends at Jordan River Foundation (JRF) on many levels, one of which includes providing social media consultancy services by Ideation Box, gave me the chance to go in a visit with JRF’s team in Deir Alla – Al-Balqaa to live cover a follow up visit of Queen Rania on the foundation’s work there on Twitter.

At a certain moment, while we were collecting requests from beneficiaries to deliver to Queen Rania’s office staff, a quick flashback in my head took me back in time to 2006, when I heard news about Her Majesty’s visit to attend the awards ceremony of Queen Rania National Entrepreneurship Competition at Princess Sumaya University for Technology. At a moment of courage I decided that I’m writing a paper and handing it out to the Queen once she arrives to the venue, that paper had one of my dreams that needed the support written on it and it’s the same reason why I’m working on Nakhweh or with JRF.

Honestly speaking, I had my own point of view about royalties at that time and thought: “such a paper will end up in a trash can, maybe a different trash can at the royal court” but it was worth the try especially for a big fan of Her Majesty like me.

Two weeks later I got a shocking call from someone introduced herself as a member of Queen Rania’s office team. I went the next day to meet with her and others who work at the office, we discussed what was written in the paper and figured out that they can’t support me for that one, maybe it was a little bit disappointing but on the other hand I was very happy with the recognition and the “royal” channel that was opened in front of me.

One of the most important highlights during those times was “Le Beirut” trip that was also communicated to Her Majesty’s office and they decided to put me in touch with the amazing Valentina Qussisiya (JRF’s Director General) who went with me through the details of the foundation’s work and decided to support the initiative.

Le Beirut

During the 5 years since I gave the Queen the paper until now, I passed through many experiences and challenges that involves a lot of work done with JRF, that was established by Queen Rania 15 years ago, I also kept watching very closely how Her Majesty is getting into social issues and trying to address many of them in addition to the help in putting Jordan on the map with the amazing image she’s giving about this country and its people. At some point Her Majesty became my role model who always inspires me when she launches new initiatives especially if they are technology or social media related and she made me think and work hard until I finally launched Nakhweh in August 2009.

My story with the inspiration of Queen Rania never stopped and it kept growing remotely until I had the chance to meet her in person few weeks ago for more than 2 hours with my fellow social activists to discuss many issues that face youth in Jordan especially volunteerism.

A lunch with Queen Rania

Today, after choosing Ideation Box to work with JRF on their social media & online communication strategy, I have to say that everyday I learn something new from more than 260 people who work with Her Majesty’s foundation, and I really think that the 1,000,000 beneficiaries they reached couple of months ago is not an accurate number, if they don’t count someone like me in.

I will dedicate another blog post very soon to tell you more about JRF’s work but I have to say that we’re the luckiest citizens on earth for having such leaders who are very inspiring and close to their people.

After 6 months of launching the pre-beta version of nakhweh.com and under the patronage of Her Excellency Hala Bseiso Lattouf – Minister of Social Development; an outstanding social event sponsored by the Arab Bank will be held on the 27th of February as the official launch of the website.

The agenda of the event includes an interesting video (filmed by Aramram) and a lot segments that show the importance of volunteerism and social engagement. All segments are done in partnership with:

• 7iber.com by Mariam Abu Adas
• “Together” program by the Arab Bank
• Ta3leeleh by Rawan Zeine
• Madrasati by Dana Dajani
• Hamzet Wasel by Raghda Butros
• Jordan River Foundation by Valentina Qussisiya
• Raneen by Rawan Barakat
• Specific Union for Farmer Women in Jordan by Zeinab Al-Momany
• Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship by Mohammad Khawaja
• Zikra Initiative by Rabee’ Zureikat

There will also be a lot of surprises and announcements during the event about new services Nakhweh.com will be providing very soon.

Live streaming for the event will be available using the internet connection provided by Mada (link to be provided very soon).

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