Damascus-Sana
The Ramadan Charitable Market, which is located on the grounds of the old fairground, with the approach of the happy Eid Al-Fitr, offers a wide variety of different ready-made clothes and shoes for men, women and children, with discounts that reach, according to those in charge, about 40 percent of the market prices.
The prices of men's and women's clothing in the market ranged between 15 and 18 thousand Syrian pounds for jeans and men's blouses between 5 and 21 thousand pounds, the price of women's abayas in the market was 8 thousand pounds, the prices of shoes ranged between 8 and 36 thousand and the pajamas ranged between 8 and 10 thousand as for children's clothes.
Prices ranged between 5 and 10 thousand for the pajamas and 15 and 25 for the Eid kit and the baby house in the charity market, between 45 and 50 thousand.
SANA monitored the views of some of the supervisors of the clothing wings in the market and a number of its visitors, as Maysa Dahman, a member of the Business Administration Committee in the Damascus Chamber of Industry and its countryside, confirmed that the participation aims to reduce the burden on citizens by providing a variety of clothes suitable for all ages at reduced prices, pointing out that the residence Such markets during the holy month of Ramadan and in the festive seasons are an indication of the Syrians' determination to challenge all circumstances and continue their normal activity.
Dahman pointed to the need to continue these markets and not be limited only to the blessed month of Ramadan, explaining that with the approaching Eid and the need for citizens to secure their requirements, work has been done to provide goods with high quality and reasonable prices and to cancel the middleman ring to reach directly from the producer to the consumer, indicating that the location of the charity market in the center of the capital facilitates access Citizens to him.
Muhammad Al-Shater, a supervisor in the clothing wing of the market, explained that the participation came to relieve the pressure on citizens in securing Eid supplies for their families through a real and effective initiative in terms of providing competitive prices, especially on children's clothing, because the holiday is the child's joy, indicating that the clothes were provided from the factories directly to citizens to obtain All their supplies are priced at cost, and this reflects the high demand of citizens on the market.
A number of market visitors pointed out the importance of such charitable markets and the offers and discounts offered in them that compete with market prices, as Umm Imad indicated that the market touches the concerns of the working class, especially in light of the current living conditions and the high prices of clothing, pointing out that she found a significant drop in prices in the charitable market. Reach more than half.
Hamza Abdel-Gawad, a dental student, pointed to the diversity in the clothing market for different ages and the quality of the local product, indicating that the price in the charitable market is half lower than the price in the local market, stressing that the offers are attractive because there is a great diversity that gives way to the multiplicity of options for citizens.
Bushra Barhoum and Amani Farrouj
