Hamrin is always eager in the classroom, creative with her artwork, and driven to become an entrepreneur in the future. Her presence encourages her peers to work harder and believe in themselves.

Ayend has the same hobbies as most teenage boys: gaming, reading, and watching his favorite shows. He is also a refugee. Through our courses, Ayend grasped an understanding of the internet and used it to find college scholarships.

Helin was only 10 years old when she, her four siblings, and her parents fled their home in Hasakah, Syria. Since joining our program in 2016, she built her confidence and developed a strong competitive edge.

As a parent, you want to raise your children to become caring, kind, empathetic people who make a positive impact on the world and the people around them. You also want to protect your childhood from the ugliness of the world for as long as possible. How do you do both? How do you discuss the hard truths, tragedies, and crimes against humanity?

An essential but often overlooked skill is financial literacy. Farnoosh and Charlie talk about why it is imperative for us to prioritize financial literacy education for all.

Hello Future is Charlie’s 6th venture and it was somewhat an unexpected career turn. Robyn digs into her journey from glossy advertising photographer to starting an education non-profit for refugee teens in the Middle East.

The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit newsroom that reports on innovation in education. In this pandemic year where remote learning is failing across the U.S. revealing both the infrastructure divide and the need for greater investment in education overall. Yet, Hello Future has managed to make remote learning work in the most unlikely location, a refugee camp.

We are so honored to be recognized by Luminary and UBS for our work. Luminary is dedicated to delivering the resources, tools, connection, and community to support the work of this diverse group of entrepreneur fellows. Luminary, thank you for elevating and supporting our work.

Charlie Grosso is an Edmund Hilary Fellow since 2019. Our collaborative work with DSIL in the Global Youth Hack-a-thon has been featured by EHF as an example of how we must design with all stakeholders for true inclusivity. Read on to see what it’s like to design an inclusive future with refugee teens.

Building a startup or a nonprofit is hard work. Mary Lemmer, Startup Late Night is a late-night talk show hosted by improv comedian, entrepreneur, recovering venture capitalist, Mary Lemmer., a recovering venture capitalist and stand-up comedian bring a little fun to pitch decks and more. Our founder Charlie Grosso dusts off her acting chops and guests on Startup Late Night.

What a great conversation with Susan McPherson, Alia Malik and our group of US youth and Syrian refugee students on what it’s like to spend the summer together in a virtual summer camp and the making of “I SEE YOU,” a short film for United Nations My World 360 Submission.

"Despite how much time your teens spend buried in their cell phones and online, the majority of them would fail a digital literacy exam. A digitally native generation is a myth."

Charlie Grosso, founder and executive director of Hello Future, an international nonprofit transforming the refugee youth experience keynotes at TechSauce 2020 on the worrisome trends she's observed in teens worldwide, beyond refugee youth and what we can do about it.

This summer, Hello Future hosted the ultimate global summer camp for teens.

30 teens from across the world came together and meet online for the first time. Refugee teens from Syrian and Afghanistan, youth from Somaliland, teens from the U.S and Canada.

This collaborative film is a result of their ideas, this global virtual meeting and sharing of their stories.

Charlie Grosso has been selected to speak at SXSW EDU, the annual technology, and education conference. The presentation will be centered around how digital literacy’s transformative power for refugee teens and under-serviced youth.

Charlie Grosso, founder of Hello Future, guests on R&R Lab hosted by Jillian Foster, a fellow feminist. Their conversations extend beyond Charlie’s current work at Hello Future and the two talks a lot about the path that took Charlie from a successful career as an advertising photographer to a non-profit leader.

PEAC and Midheaven Network in remembrance of the 75th anniversary of Hiroshima hosted a 24th Hour Event. Hewa, one of Hello Future’s star students represented the Syrian teens International Peace Bureau Youth Seminar.

Sloan Davidson, founder of Hello Neighbor, a US-based organization working with resettled refugee families here in the US chat with Charlie Grosso, our founder, about all the challenges and joys of working with refugees.

At Hello Future, we believe young people already have the solutions. In collaboration with DSIL Global, Hello Future kicked off a week-long design thinking Hack-a-Thon for teens around the world to create solutions to the problems they face due the COVID-19 pandemic.

HerHustle is a podcast that features female entrepreneurs, business owners and founders. HerHustle invited Charlie Grosso to share her unique career and her experience founding Hello Future.

Hello Future students’ plan to build a library at the Barika Refugee Camp inspires hope through the HOPE Campaign, an initiative by St. Paul’s Cathedral.