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7 February 2006.Yusra Khader is working in the women bazaar in Jenin. The agricultural produce shop, known as the bazaar, is primarily helping women beneficiaries of CARE’s food security program. The women are selling their agricultural produce such as olives, wheat, fruits, vegetables, and dairy produce such as yogurt. The initiative is implemented by CARE and PARC, the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee NGO. Funding for this initiative is provided by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid (ECHO). Yusra is selling the agricultural produce. 37 women beneficiaries are bringing in their agricultural products and the number is increasing. They are coming from remote villages in the northern part of the West Bank, from Jenin, and the remote villages elsewhere. They are housewives that attended training in food processing and animal husbandry offered by CARE and PARC. The women participants benefit financially and they are saying they are very pleased with the bazaar. One of the women participants has a 13-year old son that is handicapped, and with the money she made from selling agricultural produce in the bazaar, she could take her son to see a doctor. Yusra is saying that the bazaar was supposed to last for two to three months, but it has been a remarkable success, so now it has been open for six months and the women are asking that it remain open. Yusra has a son and a daughter in the university. With the money she is making from her work in the bazaar, she is covering the transportation cost of her two children. |
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