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Zeina Mahli participated the vocational trainings provided by UNDP and EU for Syrians as well as locals and made possible to learn Turkish to an extent to even professionally reach.
She works as translator at the Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality Art and Vocational Training Courses Center (GASMEK), another local institution UNDP supports either. Her work helps other Syrians to attend courses at GASMEK in 46 different fields.
“The vocational training courses led me to follow my lifelong dream of studying and helped me stand on my own feet, so that I can thrive and not merely survive. This is not a story of mine, but all of ours”, she says.