The last few years, Pax, Umm el Jimal Project, and the local community have been working together on how to bring economic opportunity to the rural village of Umm al-Jimal. This dream has become a reality with the Hand by Hand Heritage Organization: a tourism initiative to lift the entire community.
Samar, the executive administrator of Hand by Hand Heritage, says she does not want to be a teacher (what she explains was the only choice she had as a child). “I want to do something different; I want to do something I love”. And there is not much opportunity to do this, unless she decides to move away from her home.
So, she and three others decided to create the opportunity for themselves. As a trained tour guide with a Management Information Systems background, Samar is ready to take on a challenge of bringing a new industry to Umm al-Jimal with her three business partners.
The founders of Hand by Hand Heritage’s dream is to preserve the site while economically lifting Umm al-Jimal’s local community. Their company name embodies just this as one hand is the community of Umm al-Jimal reaching out to the second hand of the wider community of the world. “We support one another, together”, Samar says.
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