Syrian Refugee Is Teaching Cryptocurrency Basics In A Camp In Iraq

One Syrian refugee has just proved that the crypto industry is best understood through proper education. Despite the obstacles and fact that refugees in refugee camps do not have access to information about cryptocurrency, this refugee decided to teach everyone more about cryptocurrency.

Situated in the Arbat refugee camp in Iraq, the 16-year old Yousif Mohammed Nor Aldeen teaches other people about cryptocurrency. As he says, “I want to solve a problem in my community. We have a lot of problems, like corruption.”

Aldeen still has some of his family left behind in Damascus and is particularly fond of the idea that they could all earn and send money among their social networks regardless of borders or the strict regulations in recent years.

“People really need to know all the things about the internet and their phones and laptops,” the Syrian refugee claims. “We are in an advanced world and we should learn.”

Aldeen now owns a small amount of Ether (ETH) which he said he earned through a local education program run by the nonprofit Hello Future. However, as he claimed in the ETH news, his possessions are too little to spend so he is eager to earn more.

As we could see from the Hello Future founder Charlie Grosso, most of the students in Aldeen’s class think of mobile devices and computers in the same way like old-school Nintendos. They know that they could play games on them but are unfamiliar with Internet or access to global networks.

“The idea of searching to verify information is unknown to them,” she said. “They just don’t have that framework.”

The Syrian refugee is obviously looking to change this and teach them everything about cryptocurrency and the latest crypto news. Even though the learning curve is steep for people in this camp, Grosso is confident that all 44 teens who took her computer literacy class quickly grasped the concept of stateless digital money.

“Two years ago, I got my first phone. Now everyone in my family has a smartphone,” Aldeen said. “I like games like Minecraft because I can build things, design things and improve my English.”

The Syrian refugee also stated that cryptocurrency “might be good for saving money because if you put your money inside a bank, the bank might steal it.”