{"id":215975,"date":"2019-06-17T11:05:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T14:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=215975"},"modified":"2019-06-18T18:27:25","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T21:27:25","slug":"turkisk-syrian-refugee-aid-project-wins-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/turkisk-syrian-refugee-aid-project-wins-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey wins prize with refugee aid project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"single-entry-summary\">\n<div class=\"single-entry-summary-post-content\">\n<p>Rio de Janeiro \u2013 The Gaziantep Chamber of Commerce won the Best Unconventional Project prize, one of the categories in the World Chambers Competition, whose results were announced Friday (14) over the World Chambers Congress wrap-up dinner (<em>pictured above<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The Turkish chamber\u2019s winning project is Syria Desk, under which three in-house staff work to integrate Syrian refugees into the labor market, providing guidance of all sorts on business and entrepreneurship \u2013 including training, vocational guidance, Turkish lessons and meetings with interested parties. Gaziantep Chamber secretary-general Hasan Baran U\u00e7aner accepted the \u20ac 3,000 cash prize (about USD 3,360 at today\u2019s exchange rate). U\u00e7aner said the project\u2019s goal is integration and peace across the region, and that the next step is to focus on the Syrian female labor force.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar was one of five finalists for the prize with its National Home-Based Business Program (<a href=\"https:\/\/qatarchamber.com\/unconventional-project\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHBBP<\/a>) for small business startups run by young people and women.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/catar-e-finalista-em-premio-do-congresso-mundial-de-camaras\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">project<\/a>\u00a0presentations took place on Wednesday (12). Finalists also included the Par\u00e1 state chapter of the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (Sebrae-PA), the Moscow Chamber of Commerce, in Russia, and the NSW Business Chamber, in Australia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-215970\">Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey\u2019s Gaziantep Chamber of Commerce won Best Unconventional Project at the World Chambers Competition during the World Chambers Congress last Friday (14). Its Syria Desk initiative is designed to integrate Syrians into Turkey\u2019s labor market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":215970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[3034,9076,9129,9128,1927,26764,471,432,3390,1921,9073,8464],"class_list":{"0":"post-215975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-innovation","8":"tag-award","9":"tag-best-unconventional-project","10":"tag-gaziantep","11":"tag-gaziantep-chamber-of-commerce","12":"tag-prize","13":"tag-projeto-en","14":"tag-refugee","15":"tag-syria","16":"tag-syrian-refugees","17":"tag-turkey","18":"tag-world-chambers-competition","19":"tag-world-chambers-congress"},"wps_subtitle":"Turkey\u2019s Gaziantep Chamber of Commerce won Best Unconventional Project at the World Chambers Competition during the World Chambers Congress last Friday (14). Its Syria Desk initiative is designed to integrate Syrians into Turkey\u2019s labor market. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}