As-Suwayda - Sana
With the aim of proving oneself with productive work and facing the conditions of life and its requirements, Enas Abu Hamdan from As-Suwayda Governorate succeeded in establishing a micro-project for the manufacture of natural soap and glycerin soap, which brought her stability and a source of income to support her family.
The project, according to Enas, was conceived based on her desire to provide a high-quality product, after reviewing and reading in this field, and conducting several experiments that enabled her to start working from her home at the beginning of 2020, and then expand after receiving funding from the United Nations Development Program by opening a shop last year dedicated to displaying products and work. within it at the same time.
During her interview with SANA reporter, Enas stated that, through the project, she provided two job opportunities for her young daughter and son to secure the expenses to complete their studies in exchange for her assistance with some required work, which gave her project a family color and added to it a distinctive character, as she met with her children on the love of work and strengthening its culture within the same family.
In her project, Enas combines natural soap from extracts of multiple oils, such as olive, palm, coconut, and others, as well as glycerin soap, to which she adds an extract of herbal oils that suit different tastes, with a new idea of manufacturing goat's milk soap.
Simple tools that Enas uses in her work, including a small electric mixer, stainless steel pots, wooden and silicone spoons, and molds for pouring soap in different shapes, in which the materials required for manufacturing are poured for 45 days until the required interaction is achieved with the introduction of special colors for natural soap that are not harmful to the skin, as she explained.
Despite the difficulties Enas faces, the most important of which is the high prices of raw materials and the lack of reliable sources from which she buys, she continues her work with determination and determination, spending hours pouring soap in molds, preparing and packaging it before marketing without affecting her homework.
Enas, a graduate of the Faculty of Economics, indicated that she markets her production directly through her shop and through social media, as well as participating in exhibitions, with her recent orientation to distribute to shops, revealing her ambition to expand her project and manufacture large quantities of soap, especially laurel, and provide greater job opportunities in it.
According to Inas's daughter, Sarah Shanan, 24, she helps her mother in packaging and marketing the soap, and she is satisfied with her presence in the project and achieving an income that helps her with her university studies.
Inas, according to her friend Rasha Mezher, is an example of a self-made woman who launched her project to meet the needs of her family in these difficult economic conditions, which reflects her love of manual labor and her mastery of it.
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