In the middle of the market, surrounding the “Sewadi” UNRWA clinic in Gaza City, Mohammed Al-Amarin, sits behind his small street stand, displaying a variety of accessories of Chinese gold. Simply displaying his jewelry and accessories on a wooden board, Al-Amarin sells them in low prices to provide for his family on a daily basis. […]
Abu Owida, turning her hobby into a business
In the middle of her small room, Seham Abu Owaida sits on the floor covered with various kinds of beads and threads. She uses the needle and string to make a wide range of accessories, antiques and gifts selling them to customers. Like many girls in the Gaza Strip, Abu Owaida who is in her […]
Al-Dadla: Making a living of traditional Palestinian embroidered dresses
By/ Salem Elrayyes Inside her one bedroom home in Shatai Camp near the shore, Nabila Al-Dadla sits smiling behind her sewing machine turning traditionally embroidered fabrics into elegant Palestinian women wear. Al-Dadla has a partial physical impairment. She learned to sew 20 years ago in a shop for a local organization. She perfected the […]
Omar Abu Rahma: From an athlete to a carpenter
Omar Abu Rahma stands inside his small workshop, which he built on a part of his home garden. Amidst carpentry equipment and machines, he cuts large timber into small certain-sized pieces he needs to make frames and wooden boxes containing local embroidery. As soon as he finishes cutting the pieces he needs, he sits on […]
Shabbat sisters’ shop: a dream come true
By/ Salem Elrayyes In the town of Beit Hanon, north of Gaza Strip, Amani Shabbat sits behind a desk at her shop “Al-Sham” for selling wedding and birthday supplies and decorating wedding cars to serve costumers’ orders and needs. Amani, 30 years old suffers from a spinal condition. As a Social Science graduate from […]
Hanadi achieves part of her dream in “We Work” Project
Nearly two years ago, young woman Hanadi (24 years), from Gaza City, went to bed and she was quite all right. Few hours later, when she woke up, Hanadi was shocked as she could not see anything around her. She was terrified and panicked; she loudly shouted to ask for her mother’s help. “Oh Mom, […]
Fedaa” challenges her disability by writings
At her 12 age, she forced by debilitate disease to seat at wheel chair, she stooped her school to get busy with her osteoporosis that comes after she starts to get her dermatosis’s medication. Fedaa Al-Refi stays at her room in order to face her disability by paper and pen. She literary starts writings with […]
Deep Smile and Amazing Challenge Look
She believes that happiness must be felt by every human being whatever his stats ,health condition, and being disable person doesn’t mean that he/she should stay at home. She has an opinion that the disability in mind not in body, so she decided to be happy and her happiness complete with her Scientific success.When you […]







