For Tunisians abroad
What you need when you’re far from home: lend a hand or find one, send something to the bled with someone who’s flying, and know what’s on near you.
Why Tounsya
Tounsya aims to create a global network for Tunisians abroad through solidarity, collaboration and shared experiences. We believe that every Tunisian deserves a home away from home — a place to find support, share opportunities and celebrate their culture with people who understand.
Five places, one situation: being Tunisian far from home. You’ve just arrived and know nobody; you need something, or you can give a hand; you want to send something to the bled; you want to get out; your child is losing the language.
Say what you need or what you can give. Someone in the community answers. That’s the whole of it.
Screenings and gatherings near you · who’s flying soon and can carry a parcel · who’s Tunisian in your neighbourhood.
Ask in Tunisian, in French or in English. He shows you where to look — he never answers for a lawyer or a doctor.
Mutual aid
Two buttons, and they are the whole app: offer a service, or ask for a hand. Someone in the community answers — and they are nearby, because that is what makes help real.
A spare room, a lift, an hour of help with paperwork, a tool you don’t use. Whatever you can do.
Asking is not begging. It is how a community works, and here it costs nothing to try.
The city is checked against your position, not typed in. A hand two hundred kilometres away is not a hand.
A private conversation opens from the listing. No one else reads it, and nothing is for sale here.
Events
A Tunisian film screening, a concert, an iftar. You hear about them afterwards, or they are sold out. Here they come with a date, a price, a link to book — and a reminder a week before, then the day before.
We look for them on venue pages and ticket sites, and enter them by hand. Found by us — not vouched for by us.
Seven days before, then the day before. A ticket bought in January for September is a ticket you forget.
A filter that filters: within eighty kilometres. An event whose place we could not locate stays visible — we don’t hide what we don’t know.
An event can have a number of seats. Anyone can create one, and add it to their phone’s calendar in one tap.
9am9oum, the assistant
Write “famma chkoun mechi l Tounes ghodwa?” and he understands. He reads the app and shows you where to look — he never does it for you, and he never answers in place of a lawyer, a doctor or an accountant.
Jark & Nhakiw
They are not features. One is for the day you arrive somewhere and know nobody. The other is for the evening your child answers you in French.
Your neighbour. Who is Tunisian around you, and how to say hello.
“Let’s talk.” Tunisian phrases, for you or for your children.
Trust & community
Tounsya grew out of a community of Tunisians helping each other abroad. The app keeps that spirit — and it keeps it in the code, not only in the words.
A conversation opens from a listing, and stays between the two of you. Attachments are encrypted, and your exact position never leaves the server.
No ads, no paid tier today, nothing resold. The app has no reason to keep you scrolling — it has a reason to make you meet someone.
Ideas, improvement proposals, partnerships or sponsorships — we'd love to hear from you.
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We’ll write once, the day it opens. Nothing else — no newsletter, nothing passed on.
