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Iraqi women run their businesses from their homes
22-2-2018
In a special feature, Al Hayat newspaper spotlighted the story of Nisrine Mohamad, (41 years) a widower and mother of five who was forced to provide for her family after her husband was killed in a bombing in Iraq. Nisrine started to make pastries during the Eid and sell to her neighbors at affordable prices. Eventually, she considered expanding her work and purchased, for this purpose, another furnace to meet the growing orders on her home-made tarts. According to Al Hayat, Nisrine is not the only Iraqi woman who thought seriously of establishing a small-scale enterprise from her home. Dozens of similar women-run projects have mushroomed in and around the capital Baghdad and in other Iraqi cities, the newspaper wrote. Many of these are individually or family-run and others receive aid from civil society organizations funded by international donors for that purpose. Al Hayat mentioned that these projects attract many customers, especially in popular neighborhoods, as they market their products at a fair price compared to similar products sold at double the price at department stores. Al Hayat drew attention to other women-managed enterprises also common in Iraq, that involve sewing, audit for Arab pharmaceutical firms abroad and remote coordination projects. The article is available on the following link: https://goo.gl/R77LLc. (Al Hayat, February 22, 2018)
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