As-Suwayda-Sana
Between the loss of the husband as a martyr during the terrorist attacks of the “ISIS” organization on the village of Rami in the eastern countryside of As-Suwayda in 2017, and the responsibility of bearing the upbringing of the only child, the young woman, Nadia Al-Atallah, challenged her circumstances and established a small project that brought her stability and income to help her bear the burdens of life and its requirements.
The project, as mentioned by the young woman, Nadia, 23, in an interview with SANA reporter, began drawing its initial features when she was 19, by obtaining a small loan of 200,000 pounds from a microfinance institution in As-Suwayda, through which she bought some simple household appliances and marketed them based on requests in her village.
According to Nadia or Umm Qais, as she is called, she moved after the martyrdom of her husband with her young child, who is today at the age of five years, from the village of Rami to the city of Suwayda, where she established her project of a small shop selling household appliances after receiving a grant from the livelihood program at the Ain al-Zaman Charity Center. In the amount of one million and 500 thousand pounds.
Nadia, who holds a commercial secondary certificate, indicated that she developed her project until she had a name in the market and trust with merchants and customers. She also markets the products of her shop to homes through a delivery office, which helped her achieve an income that helps her pay the rent of the house and shop rented in the city, her expenses and her child.
“A small project from my fatigue and effort, but it suffices me,” Umm Qais said with great pride, noting that “a person must start from scratch and climb the steps of the ladder successively to reach his goal in life.”
According to Umm Qais, whose work has boosted her self-confidence, every woman, whether she is widowed, divorced, or single, must not stand in the way of her fate and wait for someone to come to her aid, but must rely on herself, because with will and work we make the impossible.
What Umm Qais does, who spends long hours in her place, does not conflict, as she mentioned, with raising her only child, taking care of him, and making sure to educate him in order to achieve a better future for him.
Umm Qais, according to the worker in one of the customer services offices, Omar Zain Al-Din, has been shopping through the office for homes for a while and there is confidence in her because she is honest in her dealings.
Nadia remains one of the Syrian women who rose through the ranks of success through their masterful work based on an unrelenting will.
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