FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia

New skills pay off: Syrian refugees harvest greenhouse vegetables in Turkey

03/12/2018

For nearly as long as the civil war in Syria has been ongoing, 36-year-old Sena Hamad has been living in a refugee camp with her three daughters and husband on the outskirts of the city of Osmaniye in southern Turkey.

Today, she is among the first group of 25 trainees to have been selected for training on greenhouse vegetable production.