Armanc Mohammed, head of the Women\u2019s Economy of North and East Syria, evaluated their work during the past year and discussed the projects that had been implemented and the economic level that women had reached in North and East Syria. Armanc said that women had begun a revolution in the economic field and given color to the year 2020 with their efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Women\u2019s Economy of North and East Syria develops projects and cooperatives<\/a> so that women<\/a> can create their own autonomous economy, without having to relying on men. The Women\u2019s Economy, through its initiatives over the past few years, has tried to return the economy to its true nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the Women\u2019s Economy, 16 women\u2019s cooperatives have been established in the Jazira and Euphrates regions, employing 380 women. 58 women are working in greenhouses through the Demsal Project<\/a>. In Tal Tamr<\/a>, women cultivate 8,802 dunams of land. 11 women work in a livestock project, and 30 women work in a canning workshop. 78 women are working in an agricultural cooperative<\/a> in the Washukani IDP camp. This year, 600 women took their places in cooperatives and projects, and in North and East Syria overall, more than 1,000 women are now working in the Women\u2019s Economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Regarding the difficulties of establishing the Women\u2019s Economy and its acceptance in society, Armanc said: \u201cIn 2015, the Women\u2019s Economy was established for the first time in North and East Syria, with the goal of raising women\u2019s culture\u2014a knowledge that for years has been stolen by men\u2014and establishing an autonomous economy. Such a system had not yet been established, but we started to introduce the women\u2019s economy system and its projects to communes<\/a> and society. Our first project was agricultural. We started like this, and now our work continues actively with hundreds of cooperatives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recalling women\u2019s excitement about economic work, Armanc continued: \u201cIn our society, it was very difficult for women to quickly liberate themselves from the rules and customs of social traditions. Through educational programs and family visits, women joined our work and established their own autonomous economy. Women quickly joined these initiatves. The projects that were carried out were very successful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Armanc focused on their work this year and continued: \u201cAs a first step, we expanded our small agricultural projects, because this region is known to be suitable for agriculture. The Lav\u00een Workship<\/a> produced clothing, and three Lav\u00een stores were opened in Qamislo<\/a>, Dirbesiye<\/a>, and Girkelege<\/a> in Jazira Canton. A furniture workshop and showroom<\/a> was also opened in Qamislo. Our goal with opening the furniture workshop was to show our society that not only men, but women also could do such work. We wanted to highlight the color and work of women in major cities. At the same time, this was a very good step for the women\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Armanc noted that the women\u2019s economy had already gained ground in many areas and said: \u201cAccording to the decisions made at our 2020 conference, our negotiations with Arab regions like Raqqa<\/a>, Tabqa<\/a>, Deir Ezzor<\/a>, Aleppo and Shehba<\/a> were expanded. The Women\u2019s Economy now oversees 70,000 dunams of land, though 49,000 dunams of our cooperative land in Serekaniye<\/a> and Gire Spi<\/a> are now under occupation. New cooperatives have been established in the Euphrates region, Qamishlo, Derik<\/a>, and Washukani and Serekaniye IDP camps. Our Demsal project was also expanded, adding 60 greenhouses. There are now 80 greenhouses in total, and many types of vegetables are cultrivated. Branches of the project have also been established in Derik and Manbij<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Armanc stated that Arab women now run projects for themselves: \u201cAfter their liberation from ISIS and the ISIS mentality, which targeted the power and knowledge of women, Arab women could work in the Women\u2019s Economy and establish and oversee their own projects. Now, many Arab women work in agricultural projects, food production workshops, and projects producing textiles and cleaning equipment. Poultry cooperatives have also been developed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Armanc said that women now create their own projects: \u201cKurdish, Arab, and Syriac women have reached a reality where they have their own autonomous economy and seek to strengthen it. Because of this, women now discuss projects amongst themselves, share them with us, and we discuss and implement them according to their needs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finally, Armanc said that women have built an economic revolution through the Rojava<\/a> Revolution. \u201cWithin the Rojava Revolution, women have carried out a revolution of the women\u2019s economy, establishing their own autonomous economy through their own knowledge and understanding. In the coming year, we will reach those regions that we have not yet reached, and develop projects that better develop the color and voice of women.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Armanc Mohammed, head of the Women\u2019s Economy of North and East Syria, evaluated their work during the past year and discussed the projects that had been implemented and the economic level that women had reached in North and East Syria. Armanc said that women had begun a revolution in the economic field and given color to the year 2020 with their efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-women"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"This is a translation of an article by Sorgul \u015e\u00eaxo that was published in Kurdish by JIN News on December 23, 2020.\u00a0Find the original article here<\/a>. This English translation by Meghan Bodette was originally published on her blog<\/a> on 24 December, 2020.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8883,"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8878\/revisions\/8883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mesopotamia.coop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u201cThe Women\u2019s Economy has developed in North and East Syria\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWomen joined the projects\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe want to highlight the color and work of women\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNew cooperatives have been established\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey liberated themselves from the ISIS mentality\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe develop projects according to women\u2019s needs\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\u2018With the Rojava Revolution, women have created an economic revolution\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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