Success Stories

Our Impact

The stories and meaning behind our work is just as important to us as our economic data, perhaps more. We maximize our impact by working with local actors to design projects that fit their needs, hiring local staff to carry out the projects, and partnering with local institutions to ensure the impact continues even after our direct involvement ends. Below are a select group of stories that demonstrate our impact on-the-ground.

A Spoon Full of Sugar

A Spoon Full of Sugar

After recovering from a serious health scare, Fidaa discovered a passion for chocolate making. What started as a hobby quickly turned into a business, as friends and family encouraged her to launch Thawq Sweets. With growing demand, Fidaa sought support from Tamweeli. Through coaching, training, and access to accounting tools, she was able to organize her business, track costs, and make better decisions.

“Today, with one click, I can know the cost of each product and focus on what drives profit,” she says. Her success has been remarkable, Thawq Sweets now has its own factory and employs four staff members.

The Busiest of Bees

The Busiest of Bees

Driven by her passion for beekeeping and a deep love for the natural world, Hanan began tending to a hive of bees in her backyard in Jenin in 2020 during the heights of the global pandemic. What initially began as a hobby soon turned into a flourishing business. After four years, Hanan found herself ready to take the next step with her business. Hanan set her sights on expanding her business, and through the Tamweeli platform she applied for an received a $10,000 loan from the Bank of Palestine.

With this financial boost, Hanan expanded her operations and now proudly manages around 1 million bees, a testament to her hard work and perseverance. Her business now produces over 500 kilograms of honey per season.

People Helping People

People Helping People

Sely Raies is the founder of the co-working space Tinest Co & Co El Malga Space, based in Tozeur and also offers management consulting services to businesses. To efficiently manage her invoices and monthly accounting, she used Tamweeli Assist to obtain accounting software.

"The Tamweeli consultants provided us with a list of software options and guided us toward the best solution for our business," she says.

"Since installing the software, we are much more organized and can respond more quickly to the needs of our partners."

Stitching Together Success

Stitching Together Success

Nida is the owner of Pal Tatreez (Arabic for “Palestinian Embroidery”). Nida joined an MEII training course on bookkeeping for micro businesses, where she learned to better understand costs, breakeven points, and financial ratios to better understand and analyze her business performance. MEII’s relationship with Nida has continued and now includes customized coaching sessions to help and assist her delve into the details of her business’ financial performance.

"I never considered adding the time I spend in designing, preparing the garment or even using my personal car for material procurement into account while calculating product cost," Nidaa Nassar

A Taste of Heaven

A Taste of Heaven

A Taste of Heaven

Jannati (“My Heaven” in Arabic) is a small factory producing several food products using herbs, garlic, ginger, and coriander, among others, without adding any preservatives. MEII worked with Jannati to provide the business with accounting software to track all the financial transactions of the factory. 

"We managed to enter two-years of historical financial data in addition to the current on the software provided with help of MEII to track the progress and development of my business" Issa Hamayel, Owner

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