Beneficiary: Aboud Sayes
Fund Date: 18/05/2020
Age: 35 years old
Family members: 4
When you live in a fifth-floor apartment in Al-Suleymanieh area, with no High buildings around you to protect you from the shells you can relate to Aboud sayes’s story.
When Aboud (34-years-old) married his wife Aline few years into war, buying a house was hard for the young couples, one of their relatives felt sympathy towards their struggle and offered them an apartment to live in since the owners had left Syria because of the war and the house was empty anyway.
Aboud appreciated this generous gesture sincerely, it lifted a huge financial burden off his shoulders and gave him the possibility to focus on establishing a business of his own to provide for his family, after a couple of years during the war, the family welcomed their first daughter and not long after that their son.
Despite their house’s critical location, the damage was mostly exterior; in broken glassware and windows from the nearby explosions, Aboud and his family didn’t leave their apartment only for a short time when the situation was unbearable, the greater damage was the emotional and psychological one, Aline still remembers how she would grab the newborn baby girl and run, seeking a safer place under the building staircases. While Aline was concerned with her children’s safety, Aboud had an additional concern; how to provide for them.
His business was good, he was relying on his old experiences in clothes manufacturing workshops to excel in a not far field of designing clothes embellishment patterns and embroidery. However, the problem with that type of business is that it is always developing, there are constant improvement in machinery and tools that Aboud in the midst of everything else could not keep pace, the high prices of this machinery prevented him from getting ahead in his job and eventually became overwhelmed by the slowing business.
This support will give Aboud the opportunity to outplay the economic hardships that Syrian business owners are facing, he will add to his existing machines a laser fabric cutting machine to expand his production and make a decent living for his family.