A free initiative in professionalizing accounting work to qualify a group of young accountants to enter the labor market, implemented by the Ain Al-Zaman Foundation for Social Development and the Zarqa Al-Yamama Cultural Foundation, in cooperation with the As-Suwayda Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Syndicate of Financial and Accounting Professions, and Al-Manara Business Solutions Company.
The initiative, according to Waseem Abu Fakhr, Executive Director of the Zarqa Al-Yamama Foundation, targets about 65 trainees. Its idea stems from the need of business owners or economic facility managements for accountants with experience, at a time when there are a number of young people who wish to work in this field but lack the necessary and sufficient experience.
As Abu Fakhr explained during his interview with SANA Youth, the initiative aims to qualify accountants to bring them into the labor market, spread the culture of professionalizing or learning practical accounting in parallel with academic studies, promote a team-building culture, build the trainees' self-confidence, develop their skills, and correct some misconceptions in accounting work.
Abu Fakhr explained that, in addition to training, the initiative will organize workshops and meetings with merchants to identify the problems they face and clarify some accounting issues that serve their businesses, in addition to establishing a database with the names of the trainees to be ready and linked to companies and administrations wishing to contract with accountants.
According to Basel Nasr, Executive Director of the Ain Al-Zaman Foundation for Social Development, the initiative is important for supporting youth, teaching them accounting programs, and helping them develop their skills practically and theoretically, which contributes to creating job opportunities for them. He noted that it also aligns with the youth empowerment program that the foundation has been working on for several years.
Nasr pointed out how the initiative cooperates with many active entities in the fields of accounting and sales to provide the greatest possible support and benefit to its beneficiaries.
Saleem Farhat, a fourth-year student at the Fourth Faculty of Economics in As-Suwayda, indicated that he is benefiting from this free initiative to serve his professional future, noting the distinctive atmosphere it provides and the cooperation of those in charge to make it a success.
Afraa Jaber, a third-year student at the Fourth Faculty of Economics in As-Suwayda, stated that the initiative is a distinctive step to support youth, and she joined it to gain the experience required for the labor market.
Although they already have experience in accounting work, trainees Bassam Al-Barbour and Rajeh Al-Hussein found these community initiatives important and joined them with the aim of developing their capabilities and skills, to the benefit of themselves and others.
