As-Suwayda-Sana
With simple tools and a love of work, Alice Al-Zawahirah employed her ideas and manual skills within a micro-project to manufacture chocolate, which she launched from her home in the city of As-Suwayda.
The project, as Alice mentioned during her interview with SANA reporter, was launched about a year ago, prior to the preparations for Christmas and New Year's Eve, with the aim of securing an additional source of income for her and helping her husband bear the economic burdens and meet the needs of their two sons.
She indicated that her skill in manufacturing sweets and encouraging the surrounding environment motivated her, after learning about the reality of the market and her knowledge of the small number of workers in the field of hand-made chocolate in As-Suwayda, to follow a training course in Damascus that formed the basic basis for her to launch her project, which has become an important part of her time and life and constitutes an opportunity for her to prove her presence.
Alice recounted how she brings the raw powder, makes it and pours it into large molds, then melts it and puts it in small molds that suit the hospitality in various shapes and fillings that she makes manually to meet different tastes, while designing holographic pieces of chocolate such as hearts, bags and others, while presenting new ideas by working continuously.
Alice explained that her support from the Department of Ecumenical Relations and Development in Sweida after launching her project with some work tools helped her develop her project and achieve speed in production that she is marketing through social networking pages, acquaintances and friends inside and outside Syria, in addition to participating in various local exhibitions with her permanent presence in an exhibition Old branch in Sweida.
Despite the difficulties facing the launch of any project, Alice succeeded in overcoming them until her products received an increasing demand that achieved stability and financial independence. And the study that I followed in one of the institutes in this field.
During the coming period, Alice aspires to expand the project and develop the work site, which is currently confined to her home, in addition to securing job opportunities for more than one woman in need, she said.
Alice, who has a women’s vocational high school diploma, encourages every woman who is able to work and produce, regardless of the idea of her project and the income it achieves, to take her first step without any fear because she finds that any successful work requires sacrifice and giving to reach the desired goal, as she describes it.
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