Sara and Sylvia opened their restaurant last September during Ramadan. Renting a one-bedroom apartment in their neighborhood of Naba'a in Beirut, they started making food that people could pick up after work--mostly single Sudanese men. Today, they are open just on Sundays, but they fill up Tupperwares for people to eat during the week.
They are both freelancers, which means they do not live in the house of a family. They pick up sporadic work cleaning for L.L. 5000 ($2.30) an hour. Now there isn't much work. Since they were sitting at home with nothing better to do, they decided to start a business.
The monthly rent for the apartment is $150 and the ishtirak for the generator is $25. Last month, after expenses, they each came out with L.L. 50,000 ($33.33). They would like a loan to buy a new stove.
They are both freelancers, which means they do not live in the house of a family. They pick up sporadic work cleaning for L.L. 5000 ($2.30) an hour. Now there isn't much work. Since they were sitting at home with nothing better to do, they decided to start a business.
The monthly rent for the apartment is $150 and the ishtirak for the generator is $25. Last month, after expenses, they each came out with L.L. 50,000 ($33.33). They would like a loan to buy a new stove.
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I came across this blog by chance whilst googling for information on the Sudanese in Lebanon.
I'd read some horrific articles about how many young Sudanese men are swindled out of their passports, put at physical risk trekking the mountainous terrain between Syria and Lebanon - and then co-opted to work as criminals and thugs in the streets and prisons they ultimately end up in.
Thanks for your good work.
Sudan is introducing biometric passports which are more expensive to obtain than the old ones.
Hopefully this will deter young people from putting their lives at risk and selling their dignity by living off handouts from others.
The true worth of a nation is not in its high-life but in how it treats people.
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