00:00I'm very very grateful for what I am today and it's it's a time for me right now to share
00:07to share the experience, to share the love, to share the knowledge.
00:18The way how my dad raised four of us, we're four sisters, is that you have to be independent.
00:27The reason why is because he was orphaned. He has to depend on himself. He used to say
00:33my responsibility and your mom's responsibility is to give you the education. How you carry your
00:41life, how you want to pursue your life, it's up to you. It's everything is in your hand. But remember
00:49nothing is impossible. I came to Dubai in 1993. My first job I was working in the hotel.
00:58I was working in the sales executive office. That's how I began my journey. I was working
01:06in the hotel for about four years and then I got the opportunity to open my own business.
01:16I was in, so I opened General Trading. I got a baby, you know, I got my son, my oldest son
01:23Rashid and there was an opportunity for me. A friend of mine offered me, would you like, since
01:30you have time now, you don't know doing anything, can you do a marketing? And I said yes, why not?
01:38So he asked me to help him to do marketing in a manpower supply business. So that's how I began.
01:45Then I decided maybe it's a time for me to open my own. Since I started to do this really well,
01:53I opened a company called Professional Manpower Supply. Our company become one of the top five
02:02recruitment agencies in the construction sector. Eventually we reached to the
02:07point where we were a one-stop shop recruiting people, accommodating them, feeding them
02:18and supplying manpower on an hourly basis. So we had 2,700 people in our operation.
02:26Now we have a maintenance company and the company name is Professional
02:36Line Building Maintenance. We have another company called Parent Concierge. When the family arrive
02:44to Dubai or to UAE, Parent Concierge is helping them to find their home and then finding the
02:51school. So while we come up with the one-stop shop, so when the family arrive, we just finish
02:57for them from A to Z. I always encourage women to be strong, be independent. I dearly love
03:09Dubai. That's the country that gave me opportunity to grow, to be myself.
03:19You know, and I'm very, very grateful for what I am today and it's a time for me right now to share
03:31the experience, to share the love, to share the knowledge with the people,
03:39with the community here in Dubai. When once Sheikh Mohammed, he said,
03:45many leaders are promising, but we are delivering. So that is powerful words,
03:56is always keeping me, you know, to drive and, you know, said, okay, we can do it.
04:02I think my life goal is to open a museum.
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