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The Rotary Club of Stockholm International is proud to announce that Deqa Abukar and Adnan Yousuf are the winners of the club’s Ron Pavellas Award for Community Service for 2022.
The recipients are the co-founders of BLING, started in 2014 as a reaction to entrepreneurial segregation and as an attempt to drive positive societal change while counteracting exclusion through good leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation. BLING, based in Kista, offers free business and innovation consulting, seminars IT support workshops and more for those who want to start, run and develop companies or ideas. BLING trains leaders who in turn train new leaders. The initiative has become an integral part of the professional mentoring program of the Rotary district 2350.
Following BLING’s success, Deqa and Adnan have gone on to create new initiatives to extend BLING’s effectiveness and its penetration to those in need.