The worsening of living needs prompted 40-year-old Abeer to return from Turkey, where she was forced to travel due to the war in Syria. Her city and home were damaged city in the war. She had to continue her work and support her husband because of the hard-living conditions.

Abeer, from al-Bab city in eastern Aleppo countryside, “supports her family of four” and helps her sick husband. After returning to the city and seeing their destroyed house, she borrowed a large sum of money from one of her friends to restore the house as they had no other shelter.

“After finishing the rehabilitation of my house, I started working on buying (tomatoes, peppers, dairy products and grape leaves) and turning them into food items known locally as supply rations and then selling them in the market and in the neighborhood. Because of the harsh conditions that we were exposed to in the past, I did not have the capital to do so. I’ve been working on whatever my customers ordered without storage.”

She added, “The financial situation was not good, I could not pay the amount I borrowed for my house and it does not help me to support my husband in filling the household needs, until I learned from one of my friends of  Karim Fund, which provides microfinancing to support small businesses through the application and acquisition of a fully recovered production loan.”

She pointed out, “I took my husband’s opinion and the idea was very good, so I applied with my friends on a request and after studying our request and completing the papers and procedures was done, I bought all the materials I needed in the ration supply industry and started working at my house, and I’m getting a lot of customers”.

“Now the financial situation is improving dramatically and I store the materials for sale in the winter, and thanks to my work and self-reliance, I was able to pay off the debt that was accumulated on me in the past,” she said.