Barakat Foundation Creates 10000 Society-based Jobs in 2018

Speaking to the ceremony held to inaugurate two society-based and enterprise-based initiatives across the less-developed districts of Tehran Province, CEO of Barakat Foundation, an affiliated foundation of the Execution of Imam Khomeini Order (EIKO), said. “140 projects in the framework of ASEMAN initiative with the capacity of employment for 1400 people have been predicted for 2018 and 2019.”

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“In the ASEMAN Initiative, initially the social groups need to be formed and there is not only the employment issue, but social empowerment is also significant,” Eng. Saeed Jafari said.

Pointing to the improved social and economic indicators across the local societies after implementation of ASEMAN Initiative, he said, “We predict that these 1400 occupational capacities to be developed and launched before the September 2019.”

Later in his speech, he introduced the AFTAB imitative as the complementary project of society-based employment initiates and added, “in fact, when a project is completed it will be organized as a cooperative and continues its survival.”

Eng. Jafari also announced about the creation of 10000 new job opportunities in the framework of SAHAB Initiative before the yearend and said, “in the coming year we will develop at least 15000 new jobs based on society-based approach.”

Pointing to various sorts of deprivations in the country, he said, “Tehran has included a great deal of population, and suffers from marginalization problems.”

He also announced about the special attention of Brakat Foundation to the less-developed areas of Tehran Province, and stated, “Marginalization in Tehran has brought about many social problems and EIKO is looking for eradicating deprivations and realizing social and economic empowerment of the less-developed and deprived areas of Tehran Province and tries to do so through following Resistive Economy policies and supporting Iranian production and products.”

It is necessary to explain that during the trip of Coordination deputy of EIKO to Boumehen and Jajroud, a society-based economic empowerment project in Boumehen was launched in which women are employed, and another enterprise-based economic empowerment project was inaugurated in Jajroud. This industrial unit, which was launched by Barakat Foundation, an affiliated foundation of the Execution of Imam Khomeini Order (EIKO), with 70 billion rials investment, is able to produce 25 direct opportunities only in its first phase.