A group of young men and women who love handicrafts in Qamishli launched micro-projects to support and develop handicrafts, during an exhibition titled: “Small Dreams”.
The exhibition, which was held at the Aynd Center for Development and Rehabilitation in Qamishli for free, aimed to contribute to promoting youth products and introducing them through the opportunity that the exhibition provided. In her turn, the supervisor of the exhibition of Small Dreams, Siham Al-Ahmad, stated that the success of this initiative was due to the joint efforts of the young Small Dreams Group. Among the participants in the exhibition, 15-year-old Najah Muhammad Hammoud spoke about her love for handicrafts, which made her seek to create her own small project based on mixing her own ideas with the educational videos she follows on YouTube, confirming her desire to repeat the experience and continue her dream of working. Young woman, Arjen Masoud Hassan, referred to her project, which is based on buying distinctive and guaranteed goods, making modifications to them in a unique artistic way, and presenting them to the public as souvenirs and antiques through social media. The young woman, Hala Riyad Al-Muhammad, did not give in to her difficult circumstances, so she established her small project, by making handmade women’s bags from beads, according to the customer’s request, and she sold a number of them during the exhibition days. The youngest participant in the exhibition is 13-year-old Mudhar Suleiman, chose to make candles in various forms to occupy his free time, as a result of his penchant for handicrafts and his love of working with a small group of dreams.NR