Young Innovators give Syria’s fight against COVID-19 a much-needed jump start
More than nine years of conflict in Syria has had a disastrous effect on the country’s economy and devastated its healthcare system. A pandemic of the scale of COVID-19 threatens to intensify pre-existing fragilities in an already-vulnerable economy that has experienced market collapse, rampant inflation and currency depreciation, in addition to the impact of sanctions imposed on the country.

Young Syrians were fast to join the fight in support of the county’s response to the pandemic. A few of them are putting to work their entrepreneurial skills newly acquired through a UNDP initiative called JumpStart that supports the development of innovative graduation projects in applied engineering and helps transform them into start-up businesses.

In Aleppo, three fresh mechanical engineering graduates Ahmad (26), Mohamed (24), and Ali (26) saw an opportunity in the rapidly emerging need for products that can support the country’s response to the COVID-19 crisis. They teamed up to design and produce disinfection and protective solutions.
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['Covid 19', 'Syria', 'Coronavirus']