Beneficiary: Tony Al-Ahmar
Fund Date: 08/2023
Age: 36 years old
Family members: 3
Skills and experience: Two years of experience
“After all the hardships I had been through, I was about to lose hope, but now I feel like life finally smiled at me”
This is how Tony Al-Ahmar expressed his feelings after being supported with the taxi project.
Tony Al-Ahmar is 35 years old, married to Jina Abboud and they have an adorable baby called Rudolf. Before the crisis, Tony worked as a catering officer in various restaurants and he was doing his best to save money and build up a decent future.
By the beginning of the Syrian war, he was called for military service in the intense conflict zone which made him face death several times, in addition to watching many of his friends die in front of his eyes without being able to save them.
In 2013, Tony was diagnosed with testicular cancer, and due to his medical condition, he was medically discharged from the service as he had to go through two difficult years of intensive treatment until he recovered.
Tony was grateful to God that he survived both the service and cancer and wanted to start a new chapter of his life so he went back to work in restaurants tirelessly to compensate the previous years and to establish his own business.
Indeed, after five years of hard work, Tony started his own café’ in Jaramana and was full of enthusiasm because he finally had his own business but his happiness didn’t last long; two months after the opening, the Corona pandemic swept the world causing social and economic deterioration which reflected badly on Tony’s work and he lost most of his savings as a result.
Tony was newly married and was about to have his first baby so he didn’t hesitate to start a new career in order to provide his family with a decent living, he rented a taxi and started to work two shifts a day for this endeavor but the income was barely enough to pay the taxi’s rent and Tony was in desperate need of support.
Now, after the fund, Tony is driving the streets delighted that he has his own taxi that will enable him to restore his independence and provide a good living for his lovely family.