Micro-Projects is a livelihood-support program which helps family providers who had either lost their livelihood during the war, or aspire to be a productive and financially independent part of the community by starting their own income generating business. By financing their micro-projects, Christian Hope Center is helping Christian families to have a sustainable source of income, through the provision of equipment, machinery and tools. This will eventually mitigate the economic harm caused by increasing poverty and insecurity, preserve their dignity, and alleviate the calamities of war and the economic crisis, which will ultimately preserve the existence of an active Christian community in Syria. In addition to the Micro-Projects supported in Cities of Aleppo, Homs and Damascus, the program also supports families who rely on agriculture as their principal source of income in rural Homs.


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Aleppo

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Homs

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Damascus

Taxi


My name is Iskandar Shamo, I am a 42 years old man, married to Josephine; she is 43 years old school teacher, I live with my wife and her mother in their flat in Al-Jabryeh area. We do not have children yet, but I am responsible for helping my mother-in-law, and hopefully soon we will have children. I worked as a taxi driver from 2006-2016, on a rented car, the owner asked for a high percentage from the profits so I...


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Car Repairing


Many craftsmen took it upon themselves to restore their workshops in the area of Bustan Al-Basha, and Pierre Ghazzi is one of them. 

Pierre is a 57 years old single man, who lives with his mother Olga and takes care of her, and recently his brother and nephew moved in with them. each of Pierre and his brother are workshops owners in Bustan Al-Basha. 

When armed groups took over the area, they forced all the craftsmen to leave their workplaces by force...


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Mobile Phone Maintenance


My name is Aram, 35 years old. My wife Hala and I live with my parents in their flat in Aleppo. During the crisis in Syria I moved to Mashta Al- Heloo to escape from the war and to find a job that can make me earn my living, there, I met Hala, we got married, I rented a flat and started a new job. In Mashta Al-Heloo I worked with a person in fixing mobile phones, but later he...


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Taxi


Ibrahim Diab’s life can be described with anything but ordinary. 

The 29-years-old young man lives with his mother and father and his brother Michael, who suffers from Cerebral Palsy. Michael is not the only handicapped in the family, Lena his aunt, who has a similar condition moved in with them after her parents (who used to take care of her) passed away. 

From an early age, since 2008, Ebrahim worked in a company for elevators’ installment; the business which was affected dramatically...


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Taxi


When you practice the same job day after day for more than 25 years, it doesn’t only turn to a daily routine but it also becomes a part of who you are.

That’s how we can describe Sarkis’s case. Since 1991, Sarkis Avakian (58-years-old) has been touring the streets of Aleppo city, driving the school bus, gathering kids to take them to their school every morning. Driving the school bus is the way Sarkis provides for his family of five; his...


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Cotton Underwear Shop


My name is Ebrahim Darakji, I live with my sister Najlaa, she is a 42 years old single woman, and our mother Janet in our house in Azizieh area in Aleppo. I worked in the cotton clothes industry specifically underwear field since 2007, my shop was in Sheikh Maksoud and the work was great, I worked there till 2013 when the war started in Aleppo, Sheikh Maksoud was one of the first areas to be damaged by the war. In 2013, I...


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Mini Pick-up Truck


A career in Aluminum joinery is a demanding job, it needs manual skills and physical strength, Kevork Demirjian Has been in this domain since 1980. He was a young man when he started to work in this craft and didn’t let go of it until this day. Although he has a great experience in this field, but he has not owned a workshop of his own. 

Kevork worked hard to provide for his family of four, things were okay and he...


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Taxi


Elias Masheq is a 64-years-old man who still has the perseverance to work and be an independent individual and a provider for his family.

He has four daughters with his wife Maria, all married too, leaving the old couple living alone in their house. But due to Maria’s health condition (heart disease and recent open-heart surgery) and the shells on their neighborhood, they were obliged to leave their house in Al-Midan several times, seeking refuge in their daughter house until the...


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Taxi


Being the sole provider in the family is a daily and straining struggle, George Saoud is a 41-year-old man and the head of his family, consisting of his wife Ramia, who’s a stay-home mom of their two teenage boys; Johnny (14 years-old student), and Abed (15 years-old), who sadly has a bone deficiency disease, which requires constant care and the monthly medical treatments.

George works in wall painting, he’s been working in that field for 17 years, but the economic crisis...


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Taxi


Whoever sees Hikmat Homsi’s home can’t help but to wonder how Syrian civilians survived the war… from one single glance you can see the cracks and holes in the walls, and the newly replaced windows with the financial aid of (Nabni wa Nastamer).

The house is owned by Hikmat’s parents originally. Hikmat and his family; his wife Jemma and his teenage children Gerjos and Laura) used to live in it, spending many nights hiding in the internal corridor to feel safer while...


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Mini Pick-up Truck


Milad Nakkoul is a 36-years-old man married to Vima. Milad and Vima chose to start a family at a young age, they have a 4-years-old Antonio and 2-years-old Ibrahim. When the couple started their family, the war had already started. Milad who used to work in a goldsmithing workshop lost his job due to war, then he was offered to guard the health care clinic of “St. Asia Al-Hakim” in Al-jdaideh street in the old city, it was convenient for...


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Mini Pick-up Truck


Hanna Saoud has the determination and the will power to pursue a better life after all the losses he’s been through. the 44 years-old man was unfortunately divorced, he lives now with his mother in a relative’s house after they lost their family house because of fraud and were crushed under the burden of rentals, all they were left with was his father’s retirement salary, and the income from his own job in wall paint. But because of the war...


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