Corona closes its previous investment... Alatefi launches a project to display Yemeni families' products in Malaysia
English - Thursday 04 February 2021 الساعة 08:15 am
Kuala Lumpur, NewsYemen, Farouk Thabet:
Since the 2011 crisis and the recession that befell the country, he decided to leave Yemen to search for a job opportunity.
Malaysia was the destination of the passionate young Adnan, and since his arrival in the city of Serdang - a suburb of the capital Kuala Lumpur - he worked in an Arab restaurant that serves meals to customers, although before that he worked for an oil company in Al-Mahra Governorate.
But the new job in "Serdang" was not at the level of his ambition, so he joined one of the tourism companies in Kuala Lumpur as a driver to deliver tourists.
Alatefi continued working as a driver and organizer for tourist trips for four years until he was finally able to open his own tourism company in Malaysia,
"I succeeded in working in the tourism field as an owner of a private company, and through my company, many members of the Yemeni community got job opportunities as drivers, workers, and employees," he says to NewsYemen.
The financial situation and income in the field of tourism was at its peak in a country that is considered one of the most important tourist countries in Asia and even the world as a whole, but the emergence of the coronavirus (Covid-19) turned everything upside down, and the heads of funds collapsed, thousands of companies went bankrupt and tens of millions of employees lost their work. In all countries of the world, Malaysia was one of these countries that were greatly affected, as Malaysia is a tourist country in the first place, and the country earns a large annual income from this sector, whether from natural tourism or educational tourism, and airports have closed their doors to foreign arrivals since the start of the pandemic. Hundreds of tourism companies closed their doors and permanently disrupted their work, and Adnan was one of those affected, so he stayed at home like other owners of tourism companies without a source of income or work for about a year.
Which prompted him to devise a new idea for a project through which he would get a small income and benefit some of those around him.
He says: "We have stayed in homes and many colleagues here who live with their families for more than 10 months, almost without income or work, which made me think of creating a project that we would benefit from in these difficult circumstances, and we started implementing a project to support productive Yemeni families by opening a shop that we offer It contains products from families from Yemen and Arab countries such as pastries, sweets and other materials made by housewives, and praise be to God we were able to display this in a shop that was engineered in an attractive decorative manner, and since the first week we have achieved good financial returns, and about 35 Yemeni and Arab families are currently benefiting from this project. Malaysia.
Young Adnan and many of his ilk are a model for the patient, fighter Yemeni in the Diaspora, who was not stopped by despair and frustrations no matter how severe the circumstances.
The number of Yemenis residing in Malaysia is estimated, according to official statistics from the Yemeni embassy, about 20 thousand Yemeni students, employees, workers, displaced persons and refugees.
