Success Stories

Rana Saadedine

After completing her high school education, Rana Saadedine joined an UNRWA-run center for sewing training, thus following in the steps of her father who had been forced to close down his sewing shop because of his illness.  Rana loved sewing and learned it with a passion, and this was magnified by her ambition to revive her father’s sewing shop once again.  Rana took up sewing.  She started out modestly at her father’s sewing shop, still filled with the hope that her good reputation would spread and her clients would increase.

Meanwhile, Rana came to know about Tamweelcom’s efforts of lending a helping hand to owners of small projects through loans that contribute to the rise of their aspired dream developmental projects.  She called them immediately and applied for a loan that would give life to her simple industrial project.  As soon as she received Tamweelcom’s 1000 Dinar Loan of Hope in 2003, she combined it with her modest capital and bought a stitching machine and some other necessities and raw materials missing from her sewing shop.

Rana worked hard and persevered.  Her interest came to focus on reviving and modernizing heritage outfits, giving them that fashionable up-to-date look that meets the needs and tastes of her clients from around the Kingdom.  She started to promote her products modestly at first using her mother’s shop for children’s clothes.  This however was not enough compared with the aspirations that Rana wanted to fulfill.  Tamweelcom’s role did not stop at providing the financial support.  The Company followed up on Rana’s successes, encouraging her to move ahead and raise the level of her self-confidence and her faith in her talent and ability to excel.  Thus, Rana participated in a number of local exhibitions, such as Mabbarat Um El-Hussein and the Amman Municipality.

Rana continued her steady rise up the ladder of success.  Armed with confidence in her talent and ability in designing and stitching heritage dresses and with faith in the Tamweelcom’s constant support for her pioneering project, Rana made striding steps towards fame and success.  She ultimately felt the need to increase her work force.  Therefore, she acquired a second loan from Tamweelcom, which went to purchase two more stitching machines.  She also hired several women in order to meet the increase of incoming orders, and not only on the local level, since her fame reached Arab communities in America and Denmark.

Tamweelcom helped pave the path of success for Rana through her participation in the third Bazaar Ayyadi, which was organized by the Company in Irbid (Al-Huson Street) in September.  This was a good promotional campaign for Rana, and served her well by introducing her and her talent and skill and by attracting a number of new clients.  Rana won the admiration and notice of everyone at all the exhibitions she participated in for her heritage work in terms of clothes and stitch-adorned shoes, not to mention the novel idea of introducing stitching to home furnishings and the purchase of old items, like grinding stones, silver pieces and accessories.  Moreover, and as a gesture of support and

family encouragement, Rana’s mother dedicated her entire shop for the display and sale of her daughter’s products, thus contributing to her success.Back..

The crowning for Rana’s success came about when she received the Citi Group Award, through Tamweelcom, as one of best pioneering industrial projects.  Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdallah’s viewing of the winners’ project was a noble moral award that motivated it to move ahead on the path of progress and giving.  The future promises a great deal for Rana, as she seeks to dedicate part of her sewing shop to teaching young women the arts of sewing and stitching.  Ultimately, Rana has adopted and fulfilled Tamweelcom’s goal of encouraging and supporting women to work , give and help alleviate poverty and unemployment.