UAE Aid Coordination Office launches a project to support Syrian women

Damascus, SANA- Within the framework of the initiative of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum to support Syrian women, the UAE Aid Coordination Office in Syria launched a project which includes providing and equipping training centers in a number of professions, such as tailoring, hairdressing, hair cutting, cooking, some handicrafts, and other professions to empower Syrian women and be able to secure stable sources of income and engage in the labor market and production.

The first phase of the project, which comes in cooperation with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, the Syrian Development Trust, and a number of charitable societies, included the opening of a number of training centers in the sewing profession in Damascus and its countryside, at the initiative of “Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Charitable and Humanitarian Foundation.” 

The initiative provides those centers with all its supplies, including sewing machines, tables, tools, fabrics, and others, as part of an ongoing work plan to train Syrian women with in the profession of sewing and clothing design, under the supervision of specialized training cadres, while the UAE Aid Coordination Office pledged to distribute a number of sewing machines and some other supplies to a number of outstanding female graduates. 

 In this context, Mr.Khaled Khalifa Al-Salis, Director of the UAE Aid Coordination Office, said  in a statement to SANA that the office will continue to implement humanitarian and development projects to support the brotherly Syrian people, pointing out that the project to empower Syrian women include training in a number of professions, constitutes the beginning of a long series of efforts development and production projects aimed at supporting the most poorest groups in society, with the aim of enabling the Syrian family to secure a stable and continuous source of income for themselves. 

Mazen Eyon