A bazaar for 125 women’s products from different governorates held in Sheraton Damascus

Damascus (ST): With the participation of 125 productive women from different governorates, the activities of the Syrian  Bazaar for Productive Women, organized by the Businesswomen’s Committee in the Damascus Countryside Chamber of Commerce, kicked off at the Sheraton Hotel.

The women participating in the bazaar, which will continue until the sixth of September, displayed a wide range of handicraft products such as accessories, handicrafts, paintings, decorative antiques, scented candles, woolen clothes, crochet work, embroideries, leather bags, cosmetics, food products, household supplies, famous folk foods, jams, sweets for occasions and others.

The Governor of Damascus Countryside, Safwan Abu Saadi, drew attention to the governorate’s keenness to support such activities, coordinate between events, and encourage them to take the hand of professionals and micro-enterprises with diverse, professionally and high-quality products, saying that this bazaar constitutes an opportunity to market and promote the participants’ products and encourage them to do more of production and contribute to the support of the family economy.

Head of the Damascus Countryside Chamber of Commerce Osama Mustafa indicated that the bazaar is the fruit of the work of the Businesswomen’s Committee in the Damascus Countryside Chamber of Commerce, as it includes women producers, most of whom work at home or in small workshops, noting that the Chamber wanted to help them through the bazaar as a kind of promotion and shed light on their manufactured products  in order to be able to market them so that these projects become medium and large.

The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Damascus and Damascus Countryside Chamber of Industry Samer Al-Debs said that the importance of this bazaar comes through focusing on supporting businesswomen in the governorate of Damascus and all the Syrian governorates and highlighting their quality products and all that concerns women from fashion and very distinct products, pointing to the trend during the coming period towards events and festivals that focus heavily on women’s activities and products, especially with regard to the old traditional and heritage industries that active women contribute to reviving.

K.Q.