Lattakia-SANA 160 people benefited from the loans granted by the branch of the Social Aid Fund in Lattakia Governorate
Lattakia-Sana
160 people benefited from the loans granted by the branch of the Social Aid Fund in Lattakia Governorate within the Syrian countryside empowerment program that aims to support and encourage micro-projects through loans amounting to two million Syrian pounds for one beneficiary on soft and comfortable terms, while the number of beneficiaries of the monthly bonuses spent by the fund As part of the support and empowerment program for the demobilized, from mandatory and standby service during the year 2019 to date, to 4,652 beneficiaries.
Wiam Al-Qusari, Director of the Fund’s Branch, explained in a statement to the SANA Economic Bulletin that the priority of granting loans to the wounded, the families of martyrs, families displaced from displacement, the poorest families, individuals who work temporary or seasonal work, groups with disabilities, families headed by women and the category of entrepreneurs, pointing out that the work of the Fund and its projects included Lattakia countryside, Qardaha, Al-Hafah and Jableh.
Al-Qusayri indicated that loans are granted through the branches of the Agricultural Cooperative Bank in Latakia, Jableh, Qirdahah, Haffa, Qutubiyah and Daliyah, in two installments, the value of the first installment is 50 percent of the total loan, and it is delivered after making sure of the project's readiness to receive the installations and equipment to be funded according to a sensory statement carried out by a specialized committee. Delivery of the second installment, amounting to 50 percent of the loan amount, after verifying the installation of equipment and equipment at the project site.
Sana met a number of beneficiaries of the Syrian Rural Empowerment Program, and the wounded Yamen Mahmoud Issa, 39, from the Karamaleh Hammam in the Jableh countryside, explained that he was wounded in the Damascus countryside and was discharged from the health service and began looking for a job that would provide him with a financial return that would help him in his life and commensurate with his situation indicating that he was aware of the services The fund through social networking sites, so he contacted the Lattakia City Center, which gave him all the facilities to launch the laying hens breeding project, especially financial financing, and he started work and production in the year 2018. After the success of the project, he expanded to raising chickens and currently owned 1000 birds.
In turn, Souad Habib Ibrahim, mother of three children from the village of Al Qasabia in the countryside of Jableh, expressed her happiness with the success she achieved in the sewing project about a year ago, which provided additional income to help her and her family in meeting the increasing life requirements, indicating that she learned the sewing profession and was unable to work because of the lack of capital to buy The equipment went to the Aid Fund Center in Lattakia and received funding that helped her start up her project.
Ibrahim indicated that she is working to expand her project, which includes two sewing machines and a plotter machine and help her in working with two girls, to increase production and provide job opportunities for rural women, explaining that she has created a special page to display her products through social media in addition to cooperating with a number of clothing stores and wholesale stores to dispose of their goods.
Rasha Raslan
SANA Economic Bulletin
