Rawan Abdulatif and Majd Mashharawi are two engineers from Gaza. They are young entrepreneurs incubated by Mobaderoon 3 project. They initiated a project named ‘Green Cake’ for a new type of environment friendly bricks made of coal ash. The new brick type was tested and proved its efficiency.

“The brick is light weight, sound and heat proof, environment friendly and cheap. With such type of brick it can be an alternative of heavy brick made of cement. It is made of coal burning for electricity generation.”, said Majd. “We look forward to starting up a production line of Green Cake to compete with regular bricks in the market and we also hope to win MIT competition and present this product to the Arab world!”

MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab is one of the 28 worldwide chapters of the MIT Enterprise Forum Global, an avid promoter of entrepreneurship and innovation worldwide. The MIT Enterprise Forum- Pan Arab has a proven record in promoting MIT-style entrepreneurship by organizing The MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition and other activities.

Mobaderoon 3 is a project funded by Islamic Development Bank and Arab Fund for Social and Economic Development, supervised by Welfare Association (Taawon), implemented by the Islamic University of Gaza in partnership with PICTA. The project supports youth initiatives and creative projects to start and become successful commercial projects through managerial and technical support.