51-year-old woman defies her disability and produces distinguished handmade works

SWEIDA, (ST) -It has been more than 20 years since Samira Amer from the village of Al-Matuna in the northern countryside of Sweida purchased a manual knitting machine to continue her work to produce multiple pieces of shawls, pillow faces, children’s hats, and others.

She defied Visual impairment in her left eye that she has had since her early childhood at the age of three years.

Samira, 51 years old, said to Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reporter that, her inability to continue her education due to difficult circumstances pushed her to work to highlight her manual skills in manufacturing various woolen pieces and marketing them inside and outside her village, especially during the winter season. She participated in festivals and exhibitions with distinctive products that were liked by visitors.

Samira pointed out that her success at work, in addition breeding a number of chickens within her house and selling the surplus eggs gave her self-sufficiency which pushed her forwards to achieve her ambition of obtaining money to purchase an electric machine to develop her work.

She added that the micro- sized projects are very important because they pave the way for women to create a job opportunity that secures a reasonable income for them.

The head of the administrative committee of the Syrian Association for the Physically Handicapped branch in Sweida , Nizar Shuja, affirmed that Samira produced creative ideas through her productions. These productions expressed her strong will to overcome her disability.

Raghda Sawas

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