| ID: | 80266 |
|---|---|
| Country: | Jordan |
| Title: | Jordan - Small Ruminants Investment and Graduating Households in Transition Project (SIGHT) - March 2023 |
| Description: |
Ahmad Youssef with his brothers next to “The Happy Yemen gate” Mosaic artwork produced in Ahmad’s Mosaic workshop, the work is commissioned to him by one of the restaurants in Jordan. Ahmed is 31 years Syrian refugee from Idlib, lives in Irbid and runs a Mosaic workshop with his brothers and father. "I used to work in a restaurant, but after Corona everything stopped, I couldn't support myself or my studies, I applied for a grant to do my Mosaic project and I got the grant with some training which helped me to start the project, my project aims to preserve the history of this art which used to be famous in my home town Idlib in Syria," Ahmed says. Ahmed is a beneficiary within the Microbusiness component. He joined the project in Phase1,and participated in a series of training that enabled him to build his project proposal and his project turned out to be feasible and was accepted to be funded with a total of 1030 JODs to expand his project, that is based on creating mosaics artwork. Through the seed capital amount, he was able to buy equipment for cutting and shaping the rocks that are used to create the tiles. He works from a rented house and has 4 workers and many orders through building business relations with specialized shops selling these artefacts. "I sell the art pieces I produce to touristic bazaars in Jordan next to getting commissioned work from restaurants, architecture houses and chruches." Ahmed says Small Ruminants Investment and Graduating Households in Transition Project (SIGHT) aims to reduce poverty and enhance national food security by improving the productivity of the small ruminant sector. It is also intended to assist Syrian refugees and host communities in graduating out of poverty through access to productive assets and the skills to invest in a sustainable source of livelihood that they could not afford otherwise. The project has 2 components Investment in farmer services and Livelihood investments and access to financial services and implemented in 6 governorates in Jordan. |
| Size: | 3.28 MB; 6938 x 4628 pixels; 587 x 392 mm (print at 300 DPI); 1836 x 1224 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Show more details: | Roger Anis |
| Copyright: | ©IFAD/Roger Anis |
| Categories: | New from Near East, North Africa, Europe and Central Asia |
| URL: | www.ifad.org |
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