Difficult living conditions force women to work as vendors

Difficult economic conditions in Iraq have forced many women, who have no one to provide for them, to work to make a living and improve their living conditions. Siham Ahmed, 53, is one of the women facing hardships that forced her to work as a vendor on the sidewalk of Al-Mutanabbi Street in central Baghdad to support her family. Siham told A24 that she used to sell books in a library as a living in order to pay for the electricity bills and rent but the work became too tiring. She told A24 she spends her day watching passersby, hoping they would buy from her stall, so she can make her children happy with the money she earned.