Portfolio · SEE IT / BE IT — UNICEF × UNDP · COP17 Yerevan ’26

George Nassr

Awareness Specialist / Environmental Advocate / Youth Leader

From Tartus, Syria, I work where public health, climate action and youth leadership meet — turning complex science into awareness people can use, and helping the next generation picture futures they didn't know were possible.

Because if you can't see it, it's hard to dream it.

George Nassr speaking at LCOY Syria 2025 LCOY Syria · 2025
Nature-
positive
youth
Age23 years
Based inTartus, Syria
LanguagesArabic · English C2
FieldHealth · Climate · Youth
ReachGlobal, online
01 — The story

Making the invisible, visible.

“My goal is to make the world just a little bit better.” — a line I've built a career around

I was born in Kuwait, hold Syrian nationality, and came of age in a country learning to rebuild. In that context I learned something early: the hardest barrier isn't always a lack of resources — it's a lack of imagination. People struggle to act on a future they can't picture.

So I became an awareness specialist. Whether I'm running a health-education session in a Syrian village, translating cutting-edge medical research into Arabic, or mentoring young climate leaders across borders, the work is the same: take something distant and complex, and make it visible, local, and reachable.

A nature-positive future is full of real jobs and real lives — in conservation, clean energy, environmental law, sustainable agriculture and beyond. My ambition is simple: to help a child in a classroom, in Tartus or anywhere, look at that future and think, “I could do that.”

02 — What I do

Three threads, one mission.

George at LCOY Syria 2025

Climate & Environment

Building youth-led movements for a nature-positive future — from grassroots programmes to international policy spaces.

RECO · VPBlue ScarfsYOUNGO ACE
George leading a World No Tobacco Day awareness session

Public-Health Awareness

Making complex health knowledge simple, local and lifesaving — designing sessions, tools and materials that communities actually use.

GOPA-DERDMedLifeHEAL programme
George speaking on a panel

Research & Storytelling

Translating science into stories the next generation can act on — through research, medical translation, and youth facilitation.

RECO ResearchMed. TranslationYARN · MJO
03 — Selected work

The work, on the ground.

2025 — PresentTartus, Syria
Health Awareness Specialist
GOPA-DERD · HEAL Programme (with Caritas Austria)

Designing and running community health-awareness sessions under a programme co-funded by the Austrian Development Cooperation — building the educational tools, training lecturers, and measuring real impact on beneficiaries.

Session designLecturer trainingPre/post evaluationBeneficiary data
2025 — PresentTartus, Syria
Vice President
RECO Foundation · Environmental NGO

Setting long-term strategy and overseeing the design, delivery and evaluation of environmental programmes. Acting as spokesperson and building partnerships across government, NGOs and community groups to advance environmental goals.

StrategyPartnershipsProgramme oversightTeam leadership
2024 — Present
Co-Director
Blue Scarfs · Global Youth Leadership Network

Co-leading a network of graduates from the UNICEF training on policy negotiation, advocacy and youth-led climate action — building frameworks, facilitating sessions, and supporting the initiatives of the next generation of young environmental leaders.

Climate advocacyMentorshipYouth movement
2024 — Present
Member, ACE Working Group
YOUNGO · Action for Climate Empowerment

Advancing the six ACE elements — public awareness, training, participation, access to information, international cooperation and climate-change education — within the official children's and youth constituency to the UNFCCC.

Climate educationGlobal cooperation
2024 — PresentTartus, Syria
Facilitator, YARN Programme
SALT Foundation · Psychosocial support

Facilitating psychosocial support for children aged 6–12 living with post-traumatic stress in conflict-affected settings — coordinating curriculum delivery across preparation, facilitation and evaluation, and handling sensitive cases with care.

Child wellbeingFacilitationSafeguarding
2024 — PresentTartus, Syria
Team Leader & Board Member
Le Mouvement de la Jeunesse Orthodoxe (MJO)

Leading a team to design educational and recreational activities for children aged 7–10, managing volunteers, facilitating meetings, and contributing to the movement's decision-making.

Programme designVolunteer management
2024 — 2025Syria
Researcher
RECO Project

Researching priority topics across academic databases, producing comprehensive summaries of scientific papers, and developing flyers, handbooks and educational products to raise public awareness.

Literature reviewScience writing
2023 — PresentTartus, Syria
Medical Translator
Tartus Translation Team (T.T.T.)

Translating medical textbooks and research into accurate, up-to-date Arabic — improving access to reliable medical information and developing training material for the local community.

EN → ARMedical terminologyEditorial
2023 — 2024Tartus, Syria
Community Health Volunteer
MedLife Medical Voluntary Organization

Conducting home visits to underprivileged families, leading interactive awareness sessions that simplify complex medical concepts, and supporting crisis-response and community-engagement efforts.

Home visitsCrisis response
2025United States (remote)
English Tutor
Paper Airplanes · Education non-profit

Volunteering as a one-to-one English tutor, supporting learners affected by conflict in building language skills and confidence.

1:1 tutoringEducation access
04 — Research & writing

Knowledge, translated.

● Under review · 2025

Hypercholesterolemia in a Syrian child reveals Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia: a rare case report

Co-author · submitted to Oxford Medical Case Reports
With Chreitah, Aljanati, Binshi, Jbeili & Abou Tabikh — Latakia University, Paediatrics.

● Under review · 2024

Assessment of the awareness toward tuberculosis among the Syrian community

A public-health awareness study measuring community knowledge of tuberculosis — bridging clinical evidence and community education.

Alongside formal research, I translate medical textbooks and papers into Arabic and produce flyers, handbooks and training materials — work that turns specialist knowledge into something the public can actually understand and use.

05 — Credentials

Capabilities & training.

Languages

Arabic Mother tongue
English Proficient — C2 / C1
German Basic — A1 / A2

Digital competence · DigComp 2.1

Information & data literacy6 / 6
Communication & collaboration6 / 6
Digital content creation6 / 6
Safety6 / 6
Problem solving6 / 6

Education

Doctor of Medicine Latakia University2020 — now
BBA University of the People2026 — now
High School Diploma Al-Kholoud Private HS2017 — 20

Certifications & tools

PSEA · UNICEF Agora Child Safeguarding · UNICEF Elevating Excellence · Kayani
MS Office Adobe Premiere Scientific research PDF design
07 — Why SEE IT / BE IT

A future a child can actually picture.

I've spent my life around children who were handed a very narrow picture of what was possible. In a Syrian classroom — or a youth session, or a psychosocial circle for kids living with trauma — I've watched what happens when a young person finally sees a path they didn't know existed. Something shifts. That shift is the whole point of my work.

Nature-positive careers are exactly that kind of unseen path. The jobs already exist — but for most young people they're invisible. SEE IT / BE IT closes that gap, and it does it the way I believe in: not by lecturing children, but by showing them real people, real journeys, real proof.

I'd bring more than a story. I bring hands-on experience in awareness design, science communication, Arabic medical translation, and youth facilitation — and a genuine readiness to co-create, not just be featured. I want to help shape how these stories are told so they land with the young people who most need to hear them.

George Nassr Tartus, Syria · Ready to build this with you
George with a group of children on a youth field day
The next generation — the reason for all of this.
08 — Connect

Let's build it together.

I'd be glad to talk about the cohort, share more of my work, or jump on a call. The fastest way to reach me is below.