The profession of "fishing" improves the situation of families with low incomes on the coast of Yemen
English - Saturday 28 August 2021 الساعة 11:03 am
Mocha, NewsYemen:
"This is not a story of a successful struggle, but how new opportunities allow to change people's reality for the better, and how a person can seize them and expel fears related to leaving your first job," this is how Shajma described his story, after the fishing profession changed his standard of living for the better.
The profession of fishing has changed the living reality of many residents of the West Coast, as it improved their material income and became an available income, albeit surrounded by little trouble and risks.
Among those people, Ali Shajma, who worked years ago in a shop to change car oils in the city of Khokha, south of Hodeidah, Yemen, was tired of the poverty he had been suffering from for years, and was always looking for a change in his bitter reality to a better life.
He broke the barrier of his fear of the sea after an incident that occurred in his childhood that reinforced his aspects of fear, and kept him away from the water and the bounties of the sea for a long time, to return to thinking about the sea and the fishing profession.
"Shejma" told Al-Ain News, "It changed. When you watch the people around you and their lives have changed for the better, it is inspiring to you and motivating you to follow their example, so I decided to inform my friends who work on large boats of my desire to work with them and they agreed immediately." He added that leaving the profession with little payoff and working in the waters, which has always been a source of fear, was a "courageous decision", says Shajma.
He explains the nature of the work on the first day at sea, that it was difficult, as he kept feeling dizzy all the time, and when he returned at noon he had not accomplished anything worth mentioning, which reinforced feelings of embarrassment and his fear of repeating this in the coming days.
Because of his shyness, he was secretive, and did not reveal any of his fears to his friends, and if he had done so, they would have given him advice that would limit his negative thinking in his first job at sea, according to him.
He added that on the second day he went to the sea and was sure that he would suffer the same condition that he felt on the first day, but everything changed, as the symptoms were few, while he was learning quickly, in addition to his physical strength, which gave him an additional advantage to work for a longer period.
During the years that followed the liberation of Al-Khokha from the Houthi militia, the condition of the man who was working in a profession with little income changed for the better, and his financial savings expanded to allow him to marry and build an independent house, and he is now planning to buy his own boat.
"This is not a story of a successful struggle, but how new opportunities allow to change people's reality for the better, and how a person can seize them and expel fears related to leaving your first job," said "Shijma", his story after the fishing profession changed his standard of living to Best.
A similar story Among the many fishermen in the fish landing center in Yemen's Mocha district, wheat-skinned Abdullah Ali Mazhaji was setting the prices for fish taken from the sea, to be sold to wholesalers who transported them on refrigerated trucks to other cities.
Mazjaei was not a fisherman or a worker in the fishing sector about 10 years ago, but was a worker in cutting fish and cleaning its insides for small consumers who wished to grill it in popular restaurants.
But his closeness and the strength of his intelligence allowed him to move to a job that generates a better income than what he does, although he refuses to specify the amounts he receives daily for what he does.
As for Ahmed, another fisherman, he says that his income has improved to allow him to buy a boat and rent it to other fishermen. He embodies the popular saying ".happiness is being next to the sea"
In the district of Dhu Bab overlooking the Red Sea, another story is not much different from the previous one. Arafat's father and Ahmed were working in a restaurant serving popular meals, before the outbreak of the Houthi militia war. Their family's life was very difficult, and they lived in constant poverty since their childhood.
The two boys grew up and decided to work in order to help the family overcome the situation in which they live. At first, they worked in transporting fish from inside baskets covered with snow to inside transport trucks to other cities.
Months later, they moved to work on the deck of the boat in the Dhu Bab district, which was famous for the abundance of small fish of the "Arabian" type.
The two boys worked throughout the years that followed the liberation of the coastal districts from the Houthi militia, and during that period their profits grew in a way that enabled them to buy a fishing boat and work alone on it.
The fishing was plentiful and their earnings were profitable, and he bought another, larger boat, which expanded their earnings to build a new house, instead of their old house of sticks and palm fronds.
The condition of their family also changed for the better, and she left the life of misery that was with her.
