Reports | 25 05 2020
Young people who remain in Daraa (southern Syria) are suffering from lack of work to supply their daily lives, what prompted them to look for other solutions.
Omar, thirty years old, has let his job in trading and started to breeding sheep as an alternative way of earning a living, trying to dispense everything depends on the vagaries of the market and to avoid anything could be exposed to the extortion of the Syrian regime on the checkpoints.
The case was not limited to that, other professionals can no longer resist the high prices and the volatility of the dollar's exchange rate against the Syrian currency. Like Abdul Ghani, a young man from the eastern countryside of Dara’a, he used to work in sweets industry, but now he works in breeding birds to secure source of a steady income with the deterioration of financial conditions, and because of considering the sweets as a sort of luxury.
Changing the careers is clear in the city of Dara’a. The mission of the construction worker eventually became demolition instead of construction. The high prices of construction materials and not allowing the regime to enter areas of the opposition, these reasons push them to take advantage of the destroyed houses to recycle and repair homes damaged by the bombing instead.
Ayman, a worker who use to work in building a house and then turned into the demolition and restoration of the houses, and facing a lot of difficulties in securing material from houses completely destroyed to repair the effects of the bombing in houses which are still vibrant.
A major shift affects the lifestyle and work in Dara’a, from building worker to a demolition one, the people of the province is trying to break the need through new patterns and rely on self-sufficiency, to dispense materials need to pass through the Syrian regime’s checkpoints.
