Success Story: Rouaa Hamze
“From Pain comes Hope” With this line Rouaa Hamze, our Syrian hero of this day, summarized her success story and said, “In order to leave a mark in this life; we must be driven by passion and in our hands is the message that we aim to deliver in our own unique way.”
Rouaa is the life-loving and optimistic better tomorrow girl, as every girl is sometimes owned by the rush and irritability, but before long she comes back to take off with persistence, confidence, and steady steps on her path to climb the ladder of success.
Rouaa chose to leave her mark in the field of media presentation with all she has of sensations and feelings to share them with people, and to leave a positive mark in the hearts of every person in need of a hope boost, and encourage them to move forward in their own path.
Her passion for the media has accompanied her since childhood, but unfortunately, she couldn’t enter this field academically because of a medical error that she endured in 2010, and this mistake has ensured to make her feel desperate and at distance from her dreams and life wishes; but with her family’s support and with the will and belief inside our hero; she decided to start over.
At the beginning of the year 2011, she decided to study business administration because it fits her health condition, and the site of the university was close to her home region. Since Syria has overgone a war and Rouaa’s house was far away from the city center and since business administration wasn’t her desire or ambition؛ she studied for one year in the field business administration and quit at the beginning of the year 2012.
But that didn’t stop her from moving towards her dream no matter how far away it was; so in the year 2013 she was one of the founders of a project designed for people of determination in (Sahnaya) region, the project was under the name (It’s their right for us to stand beside them) and it was called (The Saturday of Hope): an educational entertaining project, it provides entertainment services and physical therapy. She continued in this project for an interval of 7 years; during this period, she contributed to the training on how to deal with people with determination in the center (Whisper for the childhood), to get later experience certificates from the center (Whisper for the childhood) and the initiative (The Saturday of Hope).
In 2016; an initiative called (Peace Lens) provided chances to train in the field of journalism, media, creating movies, and photography, Rouaa was one of the first in the journalism and media field, and that’s where her dream started to come true, when she was granted a chance of a broadcast training in the broadcast (Sham FM) she learned the principles of editing and received a certificate of experience for one month and a half, she then worked in electronic websites. In the year 2019; she moved to work in a visual program that was the first of its kind with the teacher (Maher Chabana), the program (Keys for ambitions) on the social media platforms shines a light on the creativity of people of determination, their success, the obstacles they went through and the solutions; the program spread locally, for Arabs and internationally.
She continued until 2020 when the real opportunity came to officially join the media field on Radio (Farah FM) with her colleague (Elyssar Ahmed) in the first program to implement the concept of integration in the field of Syrian media for two seasons in a row in the program ( Maybe Something will Change). And recently, in 2021, she started her own program (Taa Marbouta), a feminist social program on (Farah FM) radio; It is a program that talks about empowering Syrian women and shines a light on their concerns and their problems.
Rouaa went through many obstacles that determined people go through, beginning with the unserved infrastructure, not having electric elevators or “ramps” to facilitate her work, and the social culture of lack of acceptance and unfair prejudgement of determined people؛ all of this was standing between their participating in activities; in addition to the imbalance of professional and educational opportunities, and many other problems and obstacles.
Rouaa has faced many difficulties when she was exposed to a medical error in addition to her adapting to a wheelchair, but she insisted to continue to move forward with determination and belief in herself and her ability, develop her personality, impose her presence and opinions, and that no obstacle would stand in her way, as she said: “It is very difficult to accept that you are in full health, and suddenly you see yourself as a burden on others, but with thanks to Allah in the first place, my family and my close friends, I am now able to overcome all circumstances.”
Rouaa had a fundamental supporter, her family; she was able to do many things, and she did not give up, Instead, she insisted and moved on her way; but every person needs support, especially young men and women with determination to be able to create success; and happiness, optimism and hope start from within the person himself, this is how Rouaa believes, and this is what she would like to share with simple words to spread her experience, perhaps give hope and be a support for someone. In Rouaa’s opinion: “A successful person is not satisfied with thinking of solutions and overcoming obstacles, but rather tries to learn from the lessons and experiences they went through to create achievements, and become a source of inspiration, motivation, and strength for others. They are never satisfied, and continue with their generosity, passion, and ambition.”
Rouaa continues to set goals on her path and continue to progress towards them, by developing herself and her capabilities, to engaging in more new and distinctive experiences; her dreams know no limits, and her biggest and most important dream is healing.
Rouaa promised us and everyone who loves her of beautiful upcoming work that she will work on soon. In the end, Rouaa thanked the initiative for her interview, and for choosing her to be one of the success stories, so that she could share her experience to spread hope and love. She wished success and brilliance for the initiative because of its role in advancing women and enhancing their position and role in society.
Also read: Woman of History- Thuraya Al-Hafez.
♀️ Uplifting Syrian Women Initiative aims at sustainable peace building in Syria through targeting women and providing them with free online courses, workshops, discussion sessions and trainings, with a view to achieving the goals of Gender Equality, Quality Education and Decent Work and Economic Growth, which all fall into the interest of society as a whole and serve the purpose of rebuilding it.
