Damascus-SANA
President Bashar al-Assad participated in the dialogues held within the activities of the first conference of the Fund for Social Mutualism and Development, which was titled “Activating the Role of Youth in Development Work.”
President al-Assad spoke to the diverse audience, including young people, university students, graduates, industrialists, economists, producers, and with them people who benefited from the fund’s work and achieved success and financial independence. He talked to them about the recommendations that resulted from this conference in terms of developing the fund’s work and the next stage it is preparing to move to after a year of its launch. As well as ways to reach more beneficiaries from different regions and over the entire area of the country, and how to frame the Fund's relationship with other banks in the future and benefit from Law No. 8 on microfinance banks.
President al-Assad considered that the Social Mutual Fund and Development is an idea that is still being tested and is capable of development and growth, especially when this experience allows us to form a clearer vision to define precisely what we want from this fund and what its goal is, pointing out that ideas are always present, but organization and prioritization is the What makes it more realistic, stressing his sovereignty that small and medium enterprises constitute the basic base of the economy.
An extensive dialogue took place between President al-Assad and the attendees, during which he listened to the problems and challenges facing Syrian youth in general, which impede their production and their ability to work and complete their educational attainment, and in many cases push them to migrate abroad. country.
President al-Assad stressed that the main reason for his attendance today in this conference is based on the importance of dialogue and its effectiveness in finding solutions to problems and obstacles, especially since dialogue is the only thing that makes intellectual work easy and feasible.
It is noteworthy that the Fund for Social Mutualism and Development was established in August 2021 and aims primarily to enhance the capabilities of individuals, especially young people, to launch their projects and provide the appropriate environment for their practical ideas on the ground. The Fund has succeeded to date in launching dozens of individual and collective productive projects in different regions of the Syrian geography.
