As he rose up and graduated, he thought over what had happened to his leg and wondered if it were a dream. He could not be certain of the reality of unemployment in Gaza till he had undergone both the need and disability.

While counting the pages of his life, he looked at his left leg which has been amputated and felt it was no longer plain: there was only misery and depression slipping into his days over could not attaining a job that suits his major. Graduated from Al-Aqsa University 2016, Noor Shameia has lost his way to be a journalist due to the scarcity of jobs in Gaza and due to his wicked disability. However, there was always hope in its aspect and life in his dead leg.

“I’m certain that I would bloom wherever days plant me,” confidently asserted

For him, it has become as clear as enough that getting a journalistic job in Gaza is a matter runs hard. From one point, Gaza is having a poor job infrastructure; from the other, his amputated leg would be a stumbling block for doing ground journalistic work that he favors. Hence, he started having a second thought away from the university major and close to his physical situation; he put several choices ahead, all of them revealed his solid fortitude.

 Noor always loves to learn new things and when IUG Irada Center advertised about free training courses in the field of mobile maintenance and smart devices, he acknowledged this sporting chance has come from heaven to initiate something by his own. He confirmed that it is a shame for a good person to sit in the house regardless of whichever pain is experienced. He joined Irada training, and since then life has shown its goodness to him.

The first days at Irada Center had switched his misery into ecstasy as brought for him much practical skills and knowledge that he had never known before. Eagerly to polish his skills, he volunteered in a maintenance shop where he lives in Khan Younis; meanwhile attending the Irada-training courses and he was recognized of self-commitment and excellence.

When he was asked about his first paid job, he told: ” I first volunteered in a friend’s shop. This place had witnessed my dedication and good work, and in turn, I developed great relationships with people. By the time, the owner of the shop started to take my work for granted and the satisfaction was the utter expression of the customers. Frankly, the money that I got from this work weighted in gold, for it was the first time I made a living from my effort”.

The community offered for persons of disability at Irada Center was significantly encouraging people to jump miles for tangible achievements. With a big smile on his face, Noor did remember one of the good situations happened to him. Once his colleague brought a recent phone with a problem on the screen; the trainer’s suggestion was to change the screen itself. “However, I thought something else might happen to the screen that would not need the exchange. I detected the phone and what I had expected was what I really noticed; the screen was displaying lines which meant that the screen was doing well. I traced after the defect and I found the socket had encountered a problem. I mended it and the phone reworked again,” Noor stated. As he completed his speech, he told that the trainer spoke highly about his skills which made him as if flying over the moon.

Irada vocational training has opened a wide window for Noor Shameia towards ceaseless successes.  He has been given this chance through the project of “Employment of Women and Youth in the Gaza Strip”, which implemented by Irada Centre for Rehabilitation and Vocational Training for Persons with Disabilities, with generous fund from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and under the auspice of the United Nations Programme UNDP/PAPP.