As-Suwayda-Sana
Multiple community initiatives are being implemented by the Al-Baraem Association for Child Care in As-Suwayda to empower women economically and psychologically through training to give them multiple professions that qualify them to work and support their families.
The initiatives, according to the association’s chairman, Firas Zahreddine, target women who come to and reside in the governorate, affected by the conditions of the war on Syria, and are held within the program of gender-based violence in cooperation with the High Commissioner for Refugees.
Zahreddine indicated during his interview with SANA reporter that this year’s initiatives included handicrafts, clothes recycling in the villages of Walga, Kanaker and As-Suwayda city, women’s haircutting in Al-Mazraa village, and the cultivation of medicinal plants in As-Suwayda city, indicating that the total number of beneficiaries reached 224 women.
According to the coordinator of the gender-based violence program in the association, Rana Al-Mazzawi, the initiative of handicrafts and recycling clothes witnessed interaction from the beneficiaries and gained importance to empower them psychologically and economically and provide a suitable work environment for many of them inside their homes, especially for those who cannot work outside the home, while the initiative of planting medicinal plants came as you mentioned The program coordinator in line with the presence of a number of non-working women who wish to learn the cultivation of these plants and the correct methods of drying and distilling them to take a profession to work with.
A number of beneficiaries of the initiative to teach the profession of handicrafts and clothes recycling confirmed that teaching them this profession enables them to work and achieve financial independence and help their husbands, especially in light of the difficult economic conditions they face, in addition to investing their old pieces of clothing in modifying them for their children.
The young woman, Nada, one of the beneficiaries of the initiative to learn women’s shaving, stated that she needed to learn this profession to secure an income for her and her children after her recent separation from her husband, while Umm Haitham, one of the beneficiaries of the initiative to grow medicinal plants, said that she was trying to grow chamomile at home, but she did not She succeeds in this, and after undergoing training with the association, she learned the correct way to do so, indicating that her mastery of growing these plants will help her sell them and ease the financial burdens on her husband.
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