Silatech partnered with Rizk for Professional Development, one of the Syrian Forum’s institutions, to launch Rizk Center in Istanbul to create employment opportunities for Syrian refugees. Silatech provides technical and financial support to Rizk center in Istanbul in addition to capacity building for the employees in Rizk centers to help them provide career guidance and employment services to the refugees.

This programme operates based on collaboration between the Assistance Coordination Unit, a nonprofit, non-political Syrian organisation and the Qatar Fund for Development. The programme aims at employing and rehabilitating refugee youth and has four training centres in four cities – Gaziantep, Mersin, Hatay and Kilis. It also functions as part of ‘Qatar’s Quest’ initiative which provides education and training to some 400,000 Syrian refugees in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey.