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.

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.

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.