Heba Hamed shows off her impressive beauty salon in Yemen's southern port city of Aden, lined with a raft of hair-and-beauty products and sunny decorations. This article is part of WFP and FIFA's #FIFAWWC campaign.
Her husband died in Yemen's ongoing conflict, making the thirtysomething entrepreneur the sole carer for their child.
Buoyed by an accounting degree from a local university, and job training supported by the World Food Programme (WFP), Heba has realized her dream of becoming a makeup artist and hairstylist despite daunting odds.
"Due to the war, I had to stop for a long time," Heba says of her craft, which started as a hobby. "Now, thankfully, I have returned with renewed strength.
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Heba counts among roughly 60,000 Yemenis, women and men, who've participated in WFP training aimed to boost skills and income opportunities.
In a country battered by nearly a decade of war and economic crises, such programmes are a step in the right direction, to say the least.
