Young Kuwaitis are showing their mettle and determination during the coronavirus pandemic by taking up jobs normally seen as unappealing. Kuwaiti women are enthusiastic about setting their own business, be it as a blogger, establishing fashion brands or in a more recent unique case, owning a food enterprise. The ‘Chill’ café employs 100 percent Kuwaiti citizens, and is operated by a group of dynamic young Kuwaiti women. The café serves a diverse range of snacks and drinks.
Young Kuwaiti women were once discouraged from being involved in such business, and so the expatriates monopolized the eatery industry with a variety of restaurants. Now, Kuwaiti women are shinning in this type of enterprise, such as owner of the Chill Café, Bushra Al-Baloshi. Once a philosophy teacher, she along with a group of young Kuwaiti women launched the Chill café, a spot for delicious food.
She told a local daily that she is proud of her work and wants to prove that Kuwaiti youth of both sexes can do all types of work, and added that many of them had been hardworking when the coronavirus pandemic hit the country.
Stressing that the time of depending on expatriates is a thing of the past, Al-Baloshi emphasized that she is pushing for young Kuwaitis who have graduated from university to go into these types of small projects in addition to their regular jobs.
She revealed that the café makes satisfactory profits for them. Adding, “This project I established with my colleagues through our own efforts and not through the small projects fund.” They do not shy away from serving customers sitting in their cars because “this is an honorable work and work is an honor in all cases. We hope the young Kuwaiti men and women will not spend their time without work after graduation.”