When I was ten years old, I used to watch my mother as she sat in the living room sewing. I waited and waited until she finished the dresses. I loved the sound of the sewing machine. It was music to my ears. It embodied persistence, determination, and the long-awaited dream of opening my tailor shop.

I knitted my dream, stitch by stitch, until, eventually, I was able to open my own tailor shop. With funding from the Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen, my dream came true. The Program believed in me and in my dreams, providing me with all the necessary support to open the shop. This success inspired others, and provided the women in my community with job opportunities and a source of livelihood, just like how the sewing machine was for my mother and my family years ago.