As-Suwayda-Sana
Years after she and her family were displaced from the Daf al-Shouk neighborhood in Damascus as a result of the terrorist war on Syria, Rafaa Shukair succeeded in reviving her workshop for manufacturing cotton clothes in Suwayda, with the support of a development program, which brought her stability and income to help her face the burdens of life and its requirements, as she put it.
Shukair, 54, told Sana how, after her displacement in 2012, she worked in a number of workshops in As-Suwayda until she established a small sewing shop in 2014, which she later developed for the workshop she launched last year after receiving support and funding from the United Nations Development Program.
Rafaa stated that through her workshop, she provided 6 job opportunities with daily wages on the produced pieces that she markets in the Suwayda markets and a number of shops in Jaramana, Damascus, in addition to her participation in the exhibitions held in the governorate.
Choucair, who has had experience in the field of sewing for thirty years, has been working with determination and determination to face the difficulties she faces, represented by frequent power cuts by allocating hours for evening work in the workshop. Prices associated with multiple intermediate links and transportation costs.
Rafaa has ambitions to expand her small workshop and turn it into a factory that provides the largest number of job opportunities and confirms her presence as a productive and active woman in society, as she described it.
Rafa's work was reflected on all family members, as her husband, Fayez Hudaifa, explained that he started working in the workshop with his wife, who trained him to work after he was previously moving between self-employment, and they supported the income of their home and secured the study expenses for their daughter.
Among the workshop workers, the young woman, Amani Shalghin, the wife of a martyr and she has two children, stated that she started working since the inception of the workshop and aspires to develop herself in this field, while Ahlam Al-Shoufi, 39 years old, praised the opportunity that the workshop provided her to support her family, especially that her husband suffers from difficult health conditions and is the only breadwinner.
The coordinator of the “From Idea to Project” project of the United Nations Development Program in Syria, Obada Al-Sabbagh, explained in a statement to SANA reporter that Rafaa was supported with work requirements such as machines and others, as well as raw materials until her workshop was launched after undergoing two courses of entrepreneurship and marketing, indicating that her workshop is gradually developing. It provides job opportunities, stressing the importance of these small projects in advancing the economic reality of families and society as a whole.
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