Bazaar Training takes a new step to develop the beneficiaries’ practical skills

Mahmoud al-Ahmed, 39, has reached an advanced level in gypsum board, after he started using paint to age and contract the gypsum pieces used in the interior decoration in the workshops.

Al-Ahmed was able to reach this phase after acquiring the necessary theoretical skills during the training sessions within the (Bazaar) project in its third phase in the city of Raqqa and its countryside.  

He says that he is now able to implement everything he needs to work in an integrated paint and decoration workshop, pointing out that these new skills will provide him with the ability to join the local labor market that is developing day after day, with the acceleration of the urban move in Raqqa since its liberation in 2017.   

As for the home electrical workshop, Abdulkarim Omar, 32, shows remarkable progress in the course of acquiring skills for this profession, especially as he holds a graduation certificate from the Electricity Institute in Deir ez-Zor.

Omar says that these vocational training will allow him to have a stable job to recover from the repercussions of displacement and the high costs of daily life, especially in light of the current economic conditions.  

By moving to the plumbing workshop, Saleh Juma’a, 44, regains his skills in this profession that he had stopped practicing long ago.

Juma’a says that the (Bazaar 3) training was an opportunity to revive his previous professional skills that he had acquired in installing sewage pipes and irrigation networks, in order to add to it the skills of home plumbing necessary to obtain a job opportunity in the local market.  

The third phase of the (Bazaar) project was launched in the city of Raqqa on January 9, after selecting 36 trainees distributed in the workshops of home electricity, plumbing, and gypsum board, with the aim of helping them secure a new beginning, reintegrate them into the labor market, and keep pace with their growing needs.  

The project comes at a time when Raqqa, since its liberation from ISIS in 2017, has been witnessing remarkable urban activity with the start of reconstruction efforts and the increase in construction projects, which led to the emergence of the need for many basic professions such as plumbing, gypsum board, painting, home electricity and others.  

This phase includes practical and theoretical training sessions in specific professions, as well as training in the field of professional marketing, from January to March 10.