Lifestyle
Meet Lama Jamjoom: The Young Saudi Behind the Brilliant ‘Cleanup Community’

Saudi women aren’t just into making names for themselves and conquering fields but they’re also all about protecting the environment and serving their community as they do so! Meet this young woman who took matters in her own hands by launching an impressive Cleanup Initiative.
Lama Jamjoom launched the Cleanup Community platform on Instagram, with the aim of changing people’s attitudes towards the environment in order to reduce pollution by managing their waste.
“It is not your litter, it is your planet. You have to take responsibility,” Jamjoom says.
“I felt like we needed an account that would spread awareness and be active with frequent events so I started this account and it just blew up.” She added.
What started as Jamjoom’s graduation project continued to serve the community and was able to gather around 30 volunteers in Jeddah’s Muhammadiyah district.
The small team together were able to clean up the entire beach from garbage, 43 trash bags were all filled with waste!
The initiative isn’t some dull environmental cause, volunteers get to have so much fun while doing the cleanups! “At the beginning, I thought I would be quite tired but instead it was a lot of fun to be with your friends and to actually have a feeling that you are doing good for your community,” volunteer student Ghala Al-Hajri said during an interview with Arab news.
This Instagram platform perfectly aligns with the 2030 Vision of Saudi Arabia, that aims to protect the environment by launching several recycling projects.
If all of this sounds intriguing to you, then don’t hesitate to follow up with the initiative online and volunteer in the next big cleanup!
Lifestyle
Atleir Des’Lumières Paris’s Digital Art Museum

Lifestyle
Saudi Rania Nashar Makes it to Forbes’ List of The World’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women”

The Kingdom’s own Rania Nashar has made it to Forbes’ annual list of “The World’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women” and we can’t help but feel so much pride!
Nashar was ranked the 99th in the list that includes prominent names such as Angela Merkel, Kamaala Harris, Melinda Gates, Rihanna, & many other global female trailblazers.
Nashar is the first female to hold the position of CEO CEO of Saudi commercial bank, Samba Financial Group. She also made it to this ranking through her tremendous efforts in implementing changes that empower women of Saudi Arabia, all of which comes as part of the 2030 Vision.
Nashar has exceeded 20 years of experience in the field of commercial banking and has been inspiring young Saudi women to take on the challenge as well and break the glass ceiling and for that, we congratulate her.
Lifestyle
This Saudi Landmark Just Won a Prestigious Award for Its Innovative Architectural Design

The King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC) has received the American Concrete Institute (ACI) award for concrete construction excellence.
The building, which is designed by Zahra Hadid Architects (ZHA), is one of the most well-known landmarks in Riyadh. It’s known for its unique architectural design.
The structure features an hexagonal honeycomb structure which stands out with hexagonal cell openings providing shade from the harsh sun. “ZHA projects have always been unique and creative in an unprecedented, nontraditional way. There’s no other structure like it in the entire world,” Saudi architect Mokhtar Al Shoaibi told Arab News.
The building is made of extremely complex steel, said Saudi architect Mukhtar Al-Shoaibi.
“The contractor working on the job must have gone through so much to install the joints and then apply the sheets over it and now it acts as a monument in the Kingdom,” he told Arab News.
It’s also worth mentioning that KAPSARC won the title of ‘smartest building’ in Saudi Arabia from the Honeywell Smart Building Awards program.
“I’m proud to see Saudis accomplish that. There are many more major projects coming up in the Kingdom as well, and I can’t wait to see what they’ll present,” Mukhtar Al-Shoaibi said.