After the success of the first Social Impact Leaders Speaker Series with Elsa Marie D’Silva in November, Fuad Mahamed (founder of Ashley Community Housing) joins us this evening to talk about transforming the lives of refugees in the UK.
The Social Impact Lab at the University is developing world-class social impact leadership among our students and are committed to showcase different role models of global leadership that can inspire our students.
Tonight’s speaker Fuad Mahamed, came to the UK as a refugee with no English and went on to obtain a first class degree in Engineering from Bath University followed by an MSc in Management from Lancaster Business School.
When Euro Hostels collapsed and started evicting people, he stepped in, setting up Ashley Community Housing in 2008 in order to support the resettlement of refugees like himself. This accommodation-based refugee resettlement service now spans across 3 cities, employs 60 people and settles 700 individuals a year.
This event it sold out but, due to popular demand, we are live streaming the event tonight from 17:00 on the Social Impact Lab Facebook page @sotonsilab.
This speaker series has been generously supported by the friends, supporters and alumni of the University of Southampton.
