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    Look: Inside a cafe in Yemen run by women, for women

    Owner Um Feras aspires to expand it into a larger leisure spot for women and children


    Published:  November 05, 2020 14:20 Reuters  and  compiled by Balaram Menon, Senior Web Editor
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    When Um Feras realised there were no leisure spaces for women in her city in Yemen, she founded her own cafe and hopes to change attitudes about women-led businesses. | Above: Um Feras prepares a beverage at her cafe in Marib. Image Credit: REUTERS
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    "There were no places for women to gather comfortably, no places belonging to the female community: where the team from administration to the youngest employee is female," she said from the Morning Icon cafe she set up in April last year in Marib, central Yemen. Image Credit: REUTERS
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    Wadad, a medical student and cafe customer, said she was drawn to the cafe's internet connection: "There is space for women in general, amid the the poor internet network in Marib and the limited available spaces for female students." Image Credit: REUTERS
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    Um Feras imports most of her coffee and drinks. Maintaining quality amid rising prices and fluctuating currency rates has been a real challenge, she said. But she aspires to expand into a larger leisure spot for women and children. Image Credit: REUTERS
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