Many (Bazaar 3) trainees joined the local labor market, despite completing half of the phase of the practical training, after they had acquired the necessary skills to find job opportunities. In one of the gypsum board workshops, five out of six trainees are enrolled in new part-time job opportunities at the end of the hours
Mahmoud al-Ahmed, 39, has reached an advanced level in gypsum board, after he started using paint to age and contract the gypsum pieces used in the interior decoration in the workshops. Al-Ahmed was able to reach this phase after acquiring the necessary theoretical skills during the training sessions within the (Bazaar) project in its third
Ahmed al-Hussein, 42, moves among the tools of making gypsum molds in the (gypsum board) workshop, realizing what he missed from this profession despite his work for years in painting inside and outside Syria. Ahmed, who spent many years moving from one workshop to another in Syria, Lebanon and several African countries, says that he
In the plumbing workshop and before the start of the practical training, Aziz Ajroum, 32, seems eager to embark on a new journey to acquire additional professional skills that may contribute to improving his current conditions. Aziz wears the uniform in preparation to move to the workshop where he, along with his fellow trainees within
After intense professional training sessions, it was time for the end of the second phase of the (Bazar) project, for the trainees to get tools and equipment to start their next step. It is a necessary step, at the end of every vocational training phase, for the trainees to start delving into the profession themselves
After ISIS killed both his father and brother in 2017, Muhammad al-Ayed, 28, found himself responsible for his mother and younger brothers, in addition to his wife and children. During the past three years, al-Ayed tried to secure a steady source of income for the two families, for which he found himself responsible, but the
