• Admin
• Jan 26, 2026
• Improving Business Performance and Local Markets

Supporting Small Projects

Many associations and civil society organizations in Idlib and northwest Syria have adopted grant programs to support small projects aimed at providing assistance to individuals with previous professional experience who have lost their jobs. These programs target youth and those seeking a source of income and work, helping them cope with the difficult conditions they face in displacement camps, villages, and towns inhabited by the most impoverished groups.

Small projects primarily focused on developing individual capacities to improve the living standards of beneficiaries and to seek a dignified livelihood. They emphasized creating opportunities with developmental impact and sustainable benefits, rather than providing immediate aid of a relief nature.

Laila Al-Alwani, 34 years old, a displaced woman residing in Mashhad Rouhin camps, stated that she was among the beneficiaries of the small project grants launched by the organization Al-Nas Fi Hajah (“People in Need”), through a series of training sessions followed by receiving a financial grant to start her own project selling ready-made clothing from her tent.

She added: “My happiness with the grant I received—amounting to 1,000 dollars—was indescribable. I considered it a lifeline out of my dire circumstances here in the displacement camps, which had been going from bad to worse, especially since I have been without a provider for the past four years.”