ICB Overseas
In 2019 we ran a vacation programme in collaboration with the British Council, in Tunisia.
ICB Overseas Tunisia
Our first ICB Overseas project took place in Tunis, Tunisia, in March 2019. In collaboration with the British Council and TAMSS (Tunisian Association for Management and Social Stability), we ran an I Can Be vacation programme with local women and girls.
Over one week, a group of 7-9-year-old girls went on ten visits to meet women in their workplaces, across a broad range of sectors.
10 girls took part in the programme, all of whom lived in Cité Ettadhamen, a deprived area in the outskirts of Tunis. Five local women were trained to become ‘I Can Be Tunisia Ambassadors’, so that they could lead and deliver the week’s programme for our first cohort in Tunis.
Scientist Latifa Laghzel shows girls how to create colours and light using chemicals at Sciencia in Tunis.
Over the week, the girls met a jewellery designer, a government minister, an interior designer, a lawyer, an NGO worker, a banker, a hotel owner, a psychologist, a scientist and a digital marketing professional.
The children visited parts of the city they had never been to before, and learned about jobs they would otherwise have been unlikely to encounter.
At the end of the programme, the children were awarded with certificates to show that they had taken part, at a ceremony held at the Regional Commissariat for Women and Children.
The project was launched at the British Ambassador’s residence in Tunis.
British Ambassador to Tunisia, Louise de Sousa, presented the I Can Be Ambassadors with certificates and spoke about the importance of exposing young girls to the career opportunities around them.
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I Can Be Tunisia Ambassador Cheima Bennasr with Louise de Sousa, the British Ambassador to Tunisia