WeAreMENA
Youth Leadership in the Middle East and North Africa
Empowering the Next Generation
WeAreMENA
Youth Leadership in the Middle East and North Africa
Empowering the Next Generation
WeAreMENA is helping to usher in a more peaceful, stable, interconnected future for the MENA region.
Founded in 2021, WeAreMENA (formerly the 4MENA Network) is a vast growing network of youth and young adult grassroots organizations from more than 15 MENA countries working to effect positive social change in the MENA region. WeAreMENA brings together hundreds of emerging leaders and young educators for immersive people-to-people encounters, fostering cross-cultural understanding, and shaping a new generation of MENA youth and young adults to lay the groundwork for regional cooperation.
“The program showed me that collaboration isn’t just possible - it’s powerful”
Youth Organization Leader
Our Mission
Our mission is to foster grassroots initiatives that promote a generation of young people that can usher in a more peaceful, stable, and interconnected future for the MENA region.
WeAreMENA Members
“Real bonds were formed - between people, across differences. There’s now a greater sense of mutual understanding and a strong desire to expand these experiences to many more people on both sides.”
Youth Organization Leader
What We Do – Areas of Work
What We Do -
Areas of Work
10+
Nationalities
from across the MENA region
15+
Member Organizations
(and counting)
300+
Participants
engaged through member organizations
150,000+
People
whose Lives Are Impacted
10+
Nationalities
from across the MENA region
15+
Member Organizations
(and counting)
300+
Participants
engaged through member organizations
150,000+
People
whose Lives Are Impacted
Why Our Network?
WeAreMENA is unique.
We do not see ourselves as individuals from different countries, but rather as a people united in their goal to improve the MENA future.
We are all committed to shared values, ideas, and a MENA-wide vision.
We bring together MENA youth and young adults from leading organizations across the region under one umbrella to form a coalition of organizations.
Leaders and educators come together from Tunisia, Morocco, Israel, Egypt, and beyond.
