From the Displacement's Pain to the Success's Hope
Under the displacement tent, Azza's dreams silently wither away, and the bright future she painted fades with her eyes. The winds of exile have thrown her away into a remote suburb of Al-Mukalla, which lacks the most basic services, and her husband is desperately trying to make ends meet for their family of seven. Life was too hard for them and too difficult to bear.
Azza tried to look for a job but did not find a job through which she could help her husband bear the burdens of living, and she continued in this vortex that swallows everything around her for a long time, and every day the most remnants of hope carried by her tired soul fade, to become completely desperate from her bitter reality, the despair that extended to everyone around her, staining her life with pessimism and helplessness.
At the end of February 2022, and based on the list of names submitted by the Executive Unit for the Management of IDPs Camps, Azza filled out the survey form in order to join the "Sustainable Opportunities for Livelihoods, Vocation & Employment) " (SOLVE) implemented by the Youth Leadership Development Foundation (YLDF) in partnership with UN Women and with the support of the Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF), which aims to support girls and women in displaced communities to recover more quickly and sustainably from the crisis, which provides training courses for women in the fields of vocational and technical skills, employability skills, and entrepreneurship.
Azza was selected and contacted by the Foundation's team to convey to her the news that will change her life and restore her spirit of hope, as she was accepted into the program, and according to her desire in the survey form, she chose to join the field of entrepreneurship and to continue her long-standing passion in the nursing profession.
During the training, Azza gained a lot of skills that helped her manage her own business, and as part of the support provided by the program to women and girls, she received financial support through which she was able to buy basic necessities to open her own clinic, start her work and receive cases in her small room, which she turned into a clinic that provides various health services to more than 90 families. She has achieved wide fame among her neighbors thanks to her experience and skill in treating them, and they refer to her modest home as a small hospital, providing them with quick and effective medical services that cover their needs, and they no longer have to travel to the city far from them in order to obtain health care. In this way, Azza contributed to solving a major problem in her neighborhood, and demonstrated the ability of displaced women and girls to integrate and contribute to their host communities.
Azza says: The SOLVE program is very supportive of women, and is an important opportunity to discover themselves and achieve their ambitions, and that it has revived the hope that died in them, and that work brings her value in herself, and through it she can reach what she aspires to, and that she regained the strength and determination that she already knew in herself, and regained her old passion, and overcame the terrible nightmare that perched on her chest and burdened her dreams, to start a new life. She is now developing her work further, calling on girls and women in situations like hers not to give in to despair and fight for their dreams with all their might.