Bazaar is your right to tell about handicrafts and known as small projects for 75 people

Damascus-Sana

Bazaar (You have the right to tell) in Khan Asaad Pasha in Damascus today was the closing activity of the Nada Development Association in a 16-day campaign to combat gender-based violence.

The two-day bazaar, which gathered more than 75 people from Damascus, its countryside, Tartous, and As-Suwayda, most of them women, featured a set of handicrafts, including crochet, embroidery, accessories, and the manufacture of sweets, in order to introduce them and find opportunities to market them.

Deputy Chairman of the Association’s Board of Directors, Mai Al-Abrash, explained that the association provides support to those who wish to enter the male and female labor market through vocational training courses within its centers in the Mazzeh, Ghazlaniyyah, Saburah and Zabadani areas, as well as providing financial grants to implement small projects within a program launched in cooperation with the High Commissioner for Refugees a year ago. 2013, noting that 16 beneficiaries of the grants program for small projects participate in the bazaar, as this year the society presented 77 grants for small projects and a large number of beneficiaries of them are families of martyrs and women heads of their families.

The success of a participation map in the bazaar showed that she was able to find a job in sewing and recycling old clothes in her home after following training sessions at the Nada Association Center in Zabadani, while Hamida Al-Pope stressed the importance of participation to expand the field of marketing her products from sweets varieties, as she contributed to the financial grant she obtained From the association last year in the implementation of a project within her home in the important area.

Mohamed Sheikh Mohamed continues to work on his beekeeping and honey sale project in a new area, Artouz, which he launched four years ago through a grant he received from the association, pointing to the importance of the bazaar in terms of introducing products and expanding their marketing through participation from similar projects owners.

From As-Suwayda, Mona Abu Hamdan saw that the bazaar is an opportunity to introduce the art paintings that it makes from dried rose and market them, while Roshan Mattanini explained that she was known for her work in the manufacture of wooden ornaments.

Reem Gharib and Ward Mohamed from Tartous presented a set of accessories and crochet work, considering that participating in bazaars and group exhibitions contributes to increasing experiences and creating new marketing opportunities.

Enas Svan
Photography: Rasha Al-Labban

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