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Read about Mother Aysha
Aysha defied the male members of her family when, as a young woman, she first pursued a career as a tradeswoman. "They tried to stop me, but they couldn’t," she recalls. "I’m like a smoking addict. I have the cravings for it. All the patterns are stored in my head. Even though I can’t read, I copy beautiful patterns from pictures in magazines." Aysha first became a client of UNRWA’s Microfinances and Microcredit Programme in 1994. She received a loan of 1000 shekels. Eleven years and sixteen loans later, her business keeps expanding, and her most recent loan was for USD3000. "If you take a loan, you have to pay it back," is the advice Aysha gives to other women wanting to start their own businesses. Mother Aysha , directed by Johan Eriksson won the Best UN Short in
‘Stories in the Field; The First United Nations Documentary Film
Festival in Cooperation with the United Nations Department of Public
Information and The New School’ in 2006.
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Meet
Mother Aysha Hamid, an extraordinary 65-year old woman living in Gaza.
Aysha supports a family of 26 by making traditional Palestinian
embroideries and dresses, and by working the markets of Gaza, buying and
selling clothes.
