​Abderrahmane Ait Lqous is from Tamesloht, a small town near Marrakesh. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Cadi Ayyad University. His first step in getting involved in the NGO sector was in 2011 when he founded “Youth without Borders for Development.” Since then, he has worked and collaborated with many national and international organizations as well as Peace Corps volunteers in his town over the past five years. In 2013, he traveled to the USA to study Social Entrepreneurship with an exchange program at the University of Connecticut. He also represented Morocco in a peace-building training with “World Peace Initiative” in Thailand and participated in organizing the event in Marrakesh in 2014 and in Turkey in 2015.