Sarah Toumi

Sarah Toumi is a Tunisian entrepreneur, who has worked on reversing desertification in her home country.

Early life Sarah Toumi was born in France; her father was Tunisian while her mother was French. While living in Paris in 2008, Sarah Toumi founded Dream, a networking scheme and incubator for environmental students. She saw the effect this had on local women, who were driven to work in poorly paid jobs in cities.

After the Ministry of the Environment rejected the plan, Although she ensured that the initial farmers were all women, she realised that she wanted to see equality between both genders and included male farmers in the trade union formed through the work. The project has subsequently been called 1milliontrees4Tunisia, with Toumi becoming one of 30 winners of the Rolex Awards for Enterprise in 2016; the first time any Tunisian had won the prize.

On November 25, 2017, Sarah Toumi received the Takreem Prize for Environmental Development and Sustainability in Amman.

In October 2021, Sarah Toumi began developing a platform to digitize her model and thus improve the traceability of her projects in order to better be able to duplicate them.

Social entrepreneurship In 2011, together with Hatem Mahbouli and Asma Mansour, Toumi founded the Tunisian Center for Social Entrepreneurship, dedicated to making social entrepreneurship a basis for the Tunisian economy.