They stand proudly next to each other behind their stalls in the brand
new Daratu Market place, one selling vegetables, the other cleaning
materials. Soon the purple ribbon will be cut to officially open this
covered market with its sixty places, and these two men have been
working since early morning to fill their stalls for their first day of
work.
Simmo Hussein Bero, 60, fled from the Yezidi region of Shingal (Sinjar)
when the Islamic State (ISIS) invaded it two years ago. He was a
vegetables seller there, too, and he thinks his clients will be mainly
people from his own community who now live in the nearby Qushtapa camp.
Atta Mohammed, 36, is from Daratu itself, a small town on the outskirts
of the Kurdistan capital Erbil, and he used to drive around town selling
goods and household items in his van.
Hussein hopes to earn enough to finally move his wife and child from the
camp to a rented home. He is already saving gas money not having to
drive his van around town anymore.
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