"In 1862 Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist, finalized his experiments on pasteurization which now allows us to prepare our dairy products free of bacteria that cause Tuberculosis, Typhoid fever and Maltese fever," said Sami Hajjar, a specialist in food and dairy engineering, during

Twenty-five women from the southern town of Ramieh are benefitting from a series of workshops organised by the municipality. After learning about knitting as an incoming generating activity, the women were invited to learn to make soap from olive crops during the month of September 2014.

While growing tobacco is a main source of earning a living in the southern Lebanese town of Ramieh, UNIFIL's Ghanaian battalion organized a knitting session for women from Ramieh, helping them to find a new kind of business.