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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Two refugee girls from the north Syrian city of Kobane have received a grant worth $4,000 from a US organization for making artisanal handicrafts at Barika camp in Sulaimani.
Marwa Mustafa, 17, and Laila Fadhil, 20, have been creating handmade cups, pottery, candles, soap, and paintings to make money for them and their family.
“We spent about a year taking courses to learn how to do this. We were only taught how to work with cay for five months, then we became certified,” Marwa Mustafa told Rudaw’s Horvan Rafaat on Wednesday.
“We spend a whole day moulding the clay and later we place them in the oven. Then, we give the pieces to the organization, and they sell our handicrafts,” Laila Fadhil said.
The Sisterhood was launched in 2018 with the support of Preemptive Love, an international organization working on promoting peace-making through sustainable economic development.
In addition to offering handicraft courses for many like Laila to obtain skills they could use to support their families, Preemptive Love also uses the Sisterhood project to provide dozens of displaced families with a variety of classes, such as yoga and Kurdish language classes for all the women far away from home.
Both girls were granted $4000 by the Kurdish American Education Society to promote their art pieces due to coverage of the Sisterhood by Rudaw English.
“Two months ago, a report had been written by Rudaw about Laila and Marwa and the organization and they wanted to help them. They sent the money to them for them to spend on educational purposes,” Dalia Qasim, Peace Building Project Manager at Preemptive Love, noted.
"We are targeting more than 1,500 refugee families in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq and we have tried to find jobs for them between 2020 and 2021,” Ghassan Ibrahim, Operation Manager at Preemptive Love, said.
The products are sold at an affordable price to people who will be attending the event, in addition to several other small business products.
Marwa Mustafa, 17, and Laila Fadhil, 20, have been creating handmade cups, pottery, candles, soap, and paintings to make money for them and their family.
“We spent about a year taking courses to learn how to do this. We were only taught how to work with cay for five months, then we became certified,” Marwa Mustafa told Rudaw’s Horvan Rafaat on Wednesday.
“We spend a whole day moulding the clay and later we place them in the oven. Then, we give the pieces to the organization, and they sell our handicrafts,” Laila Fadhil said.
The Sisterhood was launched in 2018 with the support of Preemptive Love, an international organization working on promoting peace-making through sustainable economic development.
In addition to offering handicraft courses for many like Laila to obtain skills they could use to support their families, Preemptive Love also uses the Sisterhood project to provide dozens of displaced families with a variety of classes, such as yoga and Kurdish language classes for all the women far away from home.
Both girls were granted $4000 by the Kurdish American Education Society to promote their art pieces due to coverage of the Sisterhood by Rudaw English.
“Two months ago, a report had been written by Rudaw about Laila and Marwa and the organization and they wanted to help them. They sent the money to them for them to spend on educational purposes,” Dalia Qasim, Peace Building Project Manager at Preemptive Love, noted.
"We are targeting more than 1,500 refugee families in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq and we have tried to find jobs for them between 2020 and 2021,” Ghassan Ibrahim, Operation Manager at Preemptive Love, said.
The products are sold at an affordable price to people who will be attending the event, in addition to several other small business products.
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