Damascus-SANA
Instilling a culture of entrepreneurship among young people is a goal focused on by the first national camp for young innovators, which is organized by the Revolutionary Youth Union in cooperation with the Ministry of Education in the Zabadani area in Damascus countryside, in addition to embracing and developing their talents and enhancing skills to deal with difference, teamwork and the values of belonging and citizenship.
Over the course of five days, the camp gathered 100 young men and women of secondary education from different governorates at the Second Kindergarten School, with the aim of exchanging the skills they have, encouraging them to be creative, giving them the basics of entrepreneurship in micro, small and medium enterprises, as well as shedding light on the cases of excellence among them in the areas of Arts, playing, singing, drawing and others, as the leader of the national camp of young creators for secondary education (Kinan Karnaba) explained to the delegate of SANA.
Rabie Al-Amouri is one of the participating students who submitted ideas for projects. He mentioned that his project presented a solution to secure the local need for fodder and stop importing it from abroad, indicating the importance of the camp as an incubator environment for creative youth.
From Idlib Governorate, Amir Al-Abdullah presented a project to recycle paper used for the manufacture of cardboard, indicating that the project is useful in making use of waste paper, especially from schools, and dispensing with burning it and the resulting gases and fumes that harm the respiratory system of humans and animals, explaining that the trainers during the camp helped them present their projects And study its economic feasibility.
From Raqqa Governorate, Othman al-Ibrahim said that the idea of his project was to generate electric power from hydrogen gas, as the camp provided him with an opportunity to present it to specialists for evaluation and support.
Among the talents incubated in the camp is the young Rama Saqr from the countryside of Damascus, who explained that the camp allowed her to showcase and refine her talent in reciting poetry and share her experiences in this field with her peers, in addition to training them on how to solve problems, deal with them, deal with the community and build self-confidence.
From Lattakia, Muhammad Ali Badawi showed his talent for playing the oud, pointing out that he acquired in the camp, in addition to new experiences in playing, experiences of dialogue, interaction and business management.
The first mentor for commercial education in the Ministry of Education, Sawsan Harastani, coordinator of the Entrepreneurship course, indicated that their role focused on cultivating the idea of entrepreneurship and training students on ways to find a viable and successful project idea and the steps to implement it.
Harastani explained that the students' ideas were interesting and varied between alternative energy, fodder cultivation and programming languages.
In turn, Khaled Al Rayes, one of the camp supervisors, saw that it was a microcosm of Syria and gathered young people from different governorates, indicating that their role focused on guiding students, supporting their creativity, and enhancing their spirit of belonging and citizenship.
The Revolutionary Youth Union organized on August 17 a similar camp for students of the second stage of basic education, in which 100 young men and women participated in the second mixed kindergarten in the Zabadani area in Damascus countryside.
Rehab Ali
