As-Suwayda-Sana
The insistence on working and producing, with the availability of a source of funding, made Amal Azzam succeed in establishing a micro workshop for the manufacture of socks within her home in the village of Al-Munathra in the southern countryside of As-Suwayda.
The workshop that Amal, 46, started about 5 months ago, supports her three children in light of her husband's health conditions. It also provides two job opportunities for ironing and plotting.
During her interview with SANA reporter, Amal recounted how the idea of her project came from the daily need for socks and the constant demand for them, indicating that she first underwent a 3-month training course in a laboratory in Damascus, then an entrepreneurship course with the United Nations Development Program, which also financed her by purchasing the work machine.
Amal indicated that she brings the raw materials needed to work from cotton thread at wholesale price from Damascus to make socks for all ages within her home, so that the work is during the hours of electrical feeding and stops during the period of electrical rationing, which makes the quantity of its production linked to the availability of electricity.
Amal stated that she markets her production to stalls and shops through acquaintances, friends and participation in exhibitions, revealing her ambitions to transform her home workshop into a laboratory in the future and to provide the largest job opportunities for the needy.
According to the coordinator of the “From Idea to Project” project of the United Nations Development Program in Syria, Abada Al-Sabbagh, the Amal project is considered qualitative at the level of As-Suwayda Governorate, indicating that it was funded to purchase the machine and work equipment with technical training and follow-up by engineers specialized in this field until it started work And I started marketing.
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