Bazaar trainees are planning to launch their own projects

After completing more than 16 training sessions in hairdressing, Amira al-Habib (28 years old), is thinking of opening her joint salon with one of her colleagues of the trainees of the Bazaar project in Tal al-Samen camp.  

While fulfilling the request of a volunteer for a new hairstyle, Amira says that she is almost ready for this experience. 

Like many residents of the countryside of Tal-Abyad, Amira took refuge in Tal al-Saman camp during the Turkish military offensive last October. She lost her husband at the hands of ISIS militants, and she lost her father after their displacement from the village of al-Sherkrak to the city of al-Raqqa. After the completion of the professional training workshops and obtaining the necessary tools to launch the project, Amira discusses with her colleague Sana’ al-Ahmad their options for opening the joint salon. They say that those tools that will be provided by the Bazaar project, will be a great help for them to start this new and different job.   

Amira, who supports her four children, came a long way in acquiring the skills necessary for her work in hairdressing. When you watch her during the practical exercises, you do not feel that you are looking at a trainee, but at a professional, as if she has been working in this field for years.  

As for Ibrahim al-Aboud (26 years old), he is meditating the clothes that he was able to produce with his other colleagues in the sewing workshop throughout the previous sessions.  

Ibrahim, who spent a long time as a regular worker traveling among Lebanon, Turkey and Syria, says that he returned with his three children to his hometown in the village of al-Khuraijah, south of Tal-Abyad a year ago, but he was forced to flee from it again due to the Turkish military offensive on the area.  

Ibrahim, whose health condition does not allow him to practice many professions, spends most of his time analyzing the training he received to achieve his passion for opening his own workshop whether inside or outside the camp, so that he can support his young family.  

GAV organization launched the activities of the Bazaar project in Tal al-Samen camp on June 21, aiming at training 24 male and female beneficiaries of the camp’s residents on sewing, dressmaking, hairdresser’s and haircut, under the supervision of professional trainers.  

The project aims to reintegrate the trainees into the labor market after obtaining professional training, in addition to supporting them with the tools necessary to launch special projects in specific professions, to help them secure steady sources of income for them and their families, and reduce their dependence on humanitarian aid.