The Syrian Young Entrepreneurs Association (SYEA) is a non-profit NGO working to strengthen the entrepreneurial capacity of young people in Syria and support the launch of projects that turn them into job-creators instead of job searchers.
SYEA decided on four areas of work: helping young people to overcome psychological obstacles (fear of failure, the sense of an absence of opportunity, pressure from family and peers, and other prevailing beliefs); providing information and experience to young people desiring to set up businesses; providing an supporting entrepreneurial network of entrepreneurs who succeeded in setting up businesses and who are able to provide emerging entrepreneurs with advice; and finally, providing sources of funding whether through partnerships or through security loans to banks, or entrepreneurial competitions conclude with the offering of prizes. SYEA has a group of major programs implemented through various projects and activities.