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Ambassadors of Hope - Jeremy de Champris

Meet Jérémy de Champris – Our Ambassador in Japan

Meet Jérémy de Champris – Our Ambassador in Japan Jérémy de Champris is a French illustrator/music composer living in Tokyo. Originally from Paris, Jérémy moved to Dubai (UAE) in 2009. Playing electric guitar since the age of 10, Jérémy started studying audio engineering after graduating from high school – which is the time Smith Pearlson was born. Smith entered a blues/rock band as their bass guitarist while improving his composition skills in the meantime. His audio studies raised his awareness of sound and music’s rules and technical aspects – finally allowing him to bring any melodic idea to life! He graduated in October 2014. Previous image Next image November 11th, 2014. Dreadful road accident. “November 11th at 5:45 in the morning, I was dying. I fell into a coma and woke up after 5 weeks. I had 20 surgeries – including 15 brain surgeries. I had diplopia. Though, I wasn’t blind. Unilateral hearing. Though, I wasn’t deaf. Taste and smell disorders. Though I could still eat and breathe. 21 years old, right at the dawn of life – in a wheelchair. Though, I wasn’t dead. I realized how different my future life shall be and all I could see was the painful reality. The will to live I’ve been building up to the present was gradually disappearing… Drawing was my forever hobby, and going to Japan was a childhood fantasy. Then the idea was born: I’ll start from scratch, drawing, in Japan.A slight light was finally emerging, in this terrible nightmare. From that time on, I practiced walking with crutches without using a wheelchair as much as I possibly could. After a year and a half of daily hard practice, I was finally able to stand by myself. So that was it: “time has come.” I left for Japan alone, leaving my family in Dubai.” – Jérémy de Champris Previous image Next image Drastic change. Left with no choice, Jérémy switched to the other skill he always ever had besides making music. Kept as a hobby since always, he restarted drawing. September 2018 – Jérémy moved to Japan. Going to Japan was a fantasy Jérémy always kept to himself ever since his childhood. His ambitions turned into reality earlier than expected! “Now, it will soon be 3 years that I live in Japan. Walking a lot and talking with people every day made my physical condition and my mind miraculously improve. The way I’ve been thinking a few years ago, I’m sure I’ll be able to live life again, someday. So here we are. I want it, so I will.” – Jérémy de Champris

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Ambassadors of Hope - Khadija El Kamouny

Khadija El Kamouny – Our Ambassador in Morocco

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Meet Khadija El Kamouny – Our Ambassador in Morocco Khadija El Kamouny (born March 1, 1989) is a Moroccan engineer and PhD at the MAScIR Foundation, reporting to the University Mohammed 6 Polytechnic UM6P. In December 2019, she was appointed by His Majesty King Mohammed VI as one of the 35 members of the Special Commission of the Development Model. Her research and innovation activities have received several national and international awards. Khadija El Kamouny grew up in the rural commune of Kridid in the province of Sidi Bennour. She joined the elementary school after the age of 9 years, which forced her to succeed in this step of studies in three years instead of six. She opted for electrical science and technology as a secondary school program and obtained her baccalaureate in electrical engineering. She then attends two years of preparatory classes. In 2013, she received her engineering degree in electrical engineering. She then prepared for a doctorate in engineering sciences at the Mohammadia School of Engineering (EMI). In 2018, she decided to start a master’s degree in data science at Mohammed V University in Rabat. Khadija El Kamouny is an engineer and project manager at the MAScIR Foundation reporting to UM6P. Where she leads a team of engineers and researchers working on projects around green development activities such as clean mobility, energy and air quality. She has been one of the inventors of dozens of patents, designs and brands registered on the national and international scale and has participated in about twenty scientific events about energy in Morocco and elsewhere. She was a member of the organizing committee of the 7th International Conference on Renewable and Sustainable Energy (IRSEC) 2019. As a speaker, Khadija represented Morocco at the International Conference on Energy in 2020 held in Cape Town. https://youtu.be/UYzd-K1sDaY During the COVID-19 pandemic, Khadija El Kamouny has developed several solutions to facilitate the management of the crisis, she created E-Tanaqol, a mobile application to facilitate the circulation of legal documents. She also invented, with the support of her team, the device and brand called MateCanary, a system for monitoring air quality and measuring CO2 in a closed room, the device allows to trigger an alarm if the air quality becomes poor which prevents the propagation of COVID-19 in closed environments. The present monitor is internationally commercialized. These inventions have given the creation, in 2021, of two start-ups, one in Morocco and the other in London. Her research and innovation activities have received several national and international honors. She has won the first prize at the International Conference on Renewable Energy, CIER14, in Monastir, Tunisia. She also directed the project “Developing a Solar Kit to Electrify Isolated Sites” for people in Sub-Saharan Africa, and was a finalist in the IPA’s “Innovation Prize for Africa” competition. In 2016, she received an achievement award from the Zakoura Foundation. In the same year, she won the Nestlé Success prize, the Geneva WIPO scholars award at COP22, the Personality of the Year award given by APEJ and the gold medal, at iCAN2016, an international invention and innovation competition held in Toronto, Canada. Previous Next Watch for our interview with Khadija Elkamouny to know more exciting details! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cig3xOWgXl4&t=49s

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David Karasek – Our ambassador in Switzerland

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Meet our ambassador in Switzerland – David Karasek David Karasek is a former Olympic swimmer for Switzerland. He competed in the 2012 Olympic Games in London. He’s also a 10-time Swiss swimming champion, a multiple-time medley record holder and a former member of the swimming team for the Virginia Cavaliers in the USA. Previous Next When his swimming career ended, David could not recreate the success that he had as a swimmer in the business world. He spent more than five years working in wealth management and banking firms in Zürich. He was so used to getting immediate and direct feedback from sports, so he never fully developed that mechanism to cope with the more complex and indirect nature of the workforce. After several years of David feeling powerless, he gave up his need for control and thereby created the space for his intuition to emerge. Nowadays he helps professional athletes and their coaches to stop overthinking and prepare for the grounds for intense peak performance experience. David recalls a particular need for help among sporting professionals that prompted him to become a mindset coach and create his company. “When I looked around, I saw that even the best athletes in the world often don’t have an effective support system to grow their mindset on a consistent basis,” he says, noting that ultimately, consistency remains paramount and a key ingredient of long-term success. “We become what we do every day. And I absolutely know that even the best athletes need accountability and support; even the best athletes need direction. They all know how important the mental game is and will often tell me that 90% of it is in their head. When I ask them what they do every day to upgrade their mindset, usually there’s a long pause,” Karasek says. We have the ability to CREATE A LIFE that we LOVE! David also proves mindset and mental strength are the true factors for success, not just for athletes but for everyone. He offers a unique system of how to build and transform your mindset for success. “I started coaching Pro Athletes, Entrepreneurs, Executives, Artists and over the next few years, I went from being lost to serving others and living an absolutely magical lifestyle that I love…” Over the next 5 Years I coached 100’s of ambitious clients, and during that time, PERFECTED what I now call: The Perfect Visualization System. All of a sudden, ordinary people who used to struggle with consistency showed up with the DISCIPLINE of a professional athlete!” – Karasek says Previous Next David Karasek PROMO video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4Ocy-A_6Zk ZOOM Interview with a Swiss champion and Olympian David Karasek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOydcn69oE&t=558s Connect with David Karasek here

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