Two Palestinian blind sisters Hanan and Kifah Damrah from Kafr al-Dik town in Salfit challenged their disability with wool knitting. They were able to secure a job despite hard living conditions and rampant unemployment in the West Bank.
Both sisters who have a blind brother as well have a strong faith that gives them hope for living. While Kifah and Hanan work in wool knitting their blind brother Hussein is employed.
Kifah said that she spends happy and sometimes bad times with her blind siblings as the rest of the people. What bothers her the most was the lack of caring and following up by official authorities in order to help them market their products or support them psychologically and financially she said.
Hanan told the PIC reporter that she learned along with her sister the profession of wool knitting in al-Salam Center in Shufat in Occupied Jerusalem. They learned how to knit sweaters hats jackets and baby clothes she said.
Hanan expressed gratitude to her parents. “Without my parents’ help and care we would not be able to start our own business in the Palestinian society which suffers high rates of unemployment especially in the countryside” she said.
“Thanks to almighty Allah at first and second to my parents who did everything they could in order to help us depend on ourselves” Hanan added.
“We live a pretty normal life in our home. We eat drink and cook by ourselves and do not need any help from others as long as we are inside home but outside we know nothing” Kifah said.
