Gomex

In 2007, SEAF invested 1.2 million Euros to help scale Gomex, a refugee-owned supermarket chain.

Retaj

Grofin supported Retaj with $718,000 in financing to expand their food-services business.

Shatila Studio

Shatila Studio creates bespoke, hand-made needle art and women’s fashion. All our products are made entirely in-house.

Aleppo Savon

Abdulfatah Sabouni is a fourth generation soap maker originally from Aleppo, Syria. Making soap has been his family business for more than 125 years, such that his last name, Sabouni, means soap maker.

Epimonia

Founded by Mohamed Malim, a Somali-American entrepreneur and former refugee, Epimonia is a fashion company dedicated to raising awareness around refugee issues in the United States. Epimonia sells fashion accessories, including a bracelet made out of recycled life-vests previously worn by refugees. Epimonia sources its life-vests in partnership with the non-profit organization, Refugees4Refugees, which sends its volunteers to Lesbos, a Greek Island where many refugees arrive. The final “embracelets” are then made in the Netherlands by refugees employed by the Dream Factory, owned by Mr. Malim’s uncle Omar Munie, a Dutch-Somali fashion designer.

Sitti

Sitti is a multi-national brand that brings fair wage employment to refugees through the making of skincare and home good items.

SEP Jordan

SEP is a Jordanian social enterprise sourcing and producing high quality fashion and lifestyle accessories hand-embroidered by refugees in the Jerash and Azraq camps. Established in 2017 by Roberta Ventura, and working in partnership with the UNHCR, SEP is transforming the lives of over 500 Palestinian and Syrian refugee artisans living in Jordan. The SEP artists benefit from above-market rates and performance-related bonuses while producing fashion items of superior quality. The artists are at the core of SEP’s business model, providing creative input on all the company’s designs and products.

734 Coffee

734 Coffee is a social enterprise, providing ethically sourced, fair trade, naturally farmed coffee from Gambela, Ethiopia, a region which currently hosts over 700,000 refugees from South Sudan. 734 Coffee is led by Manyang Reath Kher, who spent much of his young life in a refugee camp in Gambela, before eventually earning a degree in International Law from the University of Richmond. It was there that he founded the Humanity Helping Sudan Project, a non-profit which works in close coordination with 734 Coffee. Currently 80% of profits are used to provide scholarships and education programs for refugees in Sudan.