By Mohaed Sharif
(Eqtsad)- Syrian women has always been known of her determination and success in her job, either in peace time when she was unique as a housewife where she manages her house perfectly and brings-up her children and help them to reach to high degrees in schools and university. Or in war time and refuge and displacement conditions, where her patience and determination on success were the main reason behind her success in refuge countries.
Eqtsad has met many women succeeded in their small business projects in Jordan and were able to secure income for their families, one of them Om Azzam, whose social relations were the main causes of her success as well as patience.
She expressed that restriction on men’s opportunities to find a job was incentive to her to work in order to support her family.
Whereas, the Syrian widow Om Saeed, mother of five was forced to find a source of income in Jordan, although she was not expert in a particular skill, but she decided to start a small project from home in the field of tailoring and sewing.
Om Saeed detailed that she had improved her skills in sewing by attending courses, then she started her project with two second-hand sewing machines and taught her boys and girls the skills, then she gave each children a job in her project of bed sheets , pillows and blankets.
Om Ahmed , another Syrian lady in Jordan explained that she was not able to stay helpless while her husband failed to find a job after long time of searching. She explained that women's opportunities to find a job or start a small project are better as law has lots of restriction on men’s work.
Sarah Shaheen who runs many small projects detailed that reason for the success of Syrian women in the area of small project is that they are mostly professional projects need particular skills, which are already found in Syrian women, where they master these skills of cooking, sewing, crafting and wool knitting at home.
She added sympathy of community with Syrian woman played a role in their success, added to that customers who are mainly women as well, which helped in spreading their skills and projects quicker via social media such facebook and whatsapp.
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