Yemeni women make income with incense business

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(6 Feb 2024)
YEMEN WOMEN INCENSE MAKERS

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Sanaa, Yemen - 24 January 2024
1. Various of incense maker Wafaa al-Saraby mixing ingredients during a course where she trains women to make incense, known in Arabic as bakhoor
2. Al-Saraby instructing trainees
3. Various of trainees during course
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wafaa al-Saraby, trainer teaching women how to make incense:
"I started training people in the making of bakhoor and fragrances around 2015. Thank God, I have had a long journey in this field. Because of the problems in the country and the circumstances, the foreign aggression (referring to fighting in the Yemeni civil war), I had to try to overcome the problems and challenges we faced due to war. I started to train women because I noticed that they have undiscovered talents."

5. Various of al-Saraby during training
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wafaa al-Saraby, trainer teaching women how to make incense:
"Yemeni women love making bakhoor, they love to start making a career out of it. But the current situation in the country and the surge in the price of raw materials are among the challenges that we have experienced and tried to overcome to make women self-sufficient, especially given the current circumstances. I hope that the authorities start to consider supporting the training centers that empower women and give them more training opportunities."

7. Various of Omm Mohamed, who once was a trainee of al-Saraby's, making incense at her house
8. Various of Omm Mohamed making incense portions
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Omm Mohamed, incense maker:
"I didn't know anything about making bakhoor, or about the bakhoor and fragrances industry. Now I have good experience and I know a lot about it. I didn't have any source of income before. But now, thank God, I sell bakhoor almost every day and I have my clients. Thank God, I have a source of income now through which I can support my family."

Sanaa, Yemen - 10 January 2024
10. Various of Yemeni women selling their handmade products at a local market

Sanaa, Yemen - 18 January 2024
11. Various of members of Rowad foundation, an organization that aims to empower entrepreneurs in Yemen, seated before laptops
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abeer al-Dabey, a Yemeni expert in empowering women through entrepreneurship:
"I believe that Yemeni women's involvement (in business) has significantly changed in the past 8 years despite the war. But there is another side to the war, and that is the acceptance of the women's contribution (to business). I believe that the country has to facilitate the procedures for women wishing to start (their projects) and that the private sector to offer funding to these projects. I hope that international organizations give specific support to the groups specialized in supporting women-led projects."

Sanaa, Yemen - 10 January 2024
13. Various of market in Sanaa
STORYLINE:
A Yemeni incense maker empowers women by teaching them how to start their own small business at a time when women in Yemen increasingly find themselves having to provide for their family.

Wafaa al-Saraby, a Yemeni mother of six, started dabbling with the making of incense, known locally as bakhoor, around 2015.

She later started leading a training course to teach women how to make incense, passing on her knowledge to more than 300 women over the years.

"I started to train women because I noticed that they have undiscovered talents," al-Saraby says.



People use it to both aromatize their homes and their clothes with its fragrant smell.




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