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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Halima, originally from the Iranian Kurdistan city of Sine (Sanandaj), in her thirties, has set up a van to sell ice cream on the hot summer streets of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region.
“Every kind of work has its own challenges, especially in Kurdish cities,” says Halima. “It is hard for a woman to do this kind of work on the streets.”
Halima’s personality and ice cream have drawn shoppers’ attention to her tiny blue van, decorated with a picture of the cold treat.
“Halima is so friendly,” Tahir Muhammad, who was visiting Halima to buy ice cream, told Rudaw. “When a shopper comes here, she treats them kindly.”
“Her ice cream is good though, honestly,” Muhammad added.
Neighbors of Halima believe she is a successful woman and instead of getting soft drinks, they prefer to visit her and eat her cold treats.
“She has been a prosperous woman so far,” said Ibrahim Fakir, a neighbor. “Hundreds of shoppers visit her every day.”
Wearing Kurdish dress and a dark scarf, sitting in her small van for a long time, university graduate Halima says that many people are critical of why a woman would be selling ice cream on the streets.
“I don’t care what people think about me,” she says. “I just want to stand on my own feet and not be in need.”
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