Mosques in Jordan are in need of interior paint maintenance and could provide job opportunities for unemployed youth. The document proposes a program where youth receive training to paint the interior of mosques, with materials and salaries provided through fundraising. This could generate over 26,000 direct jobs for youth and inject nearly 6 million Jordanian dinars into the economy annually. Professional painters would train youth, creating over 1,000 additional jobs. The youth would gain job skills while mosques received needed maintenance, providing benefits across sectors.

1. How Can Mosques Become a Permanent Solution to Youth
Unemployment in Jordan?
Tariq Al-Basha – Management Consultant
Tariq Al-Basha @ albashatariq@outlook.com 1

2. “Unemployment rate for
Jordanians was 18.7% in 2018.”
Tariq Al-Basha @ albashatariq@outlook.com 2
Source: Department of Statistics (Jordan)

3. “Based on the latest statistics by
Jordan’s Ministry of Awqaf Islamic
Affairs and Holy Places, the total
number of mosques was 5,277 in
2010.”
Tariq Al-Basha @ albashatariq@outlook.com 3

4. “Many mosques are in need for
interior paint maintenance.”
Tariq Al-Basha @ albashatariq@outlook.com 4

5. “If the right resources are given, allocated, and
managed, the mosques’ need for interior paint
maintenance can contribute in solving partially
the unemployment among Jordanian youth.”
Tariq Al-Basha @ albashatariq@outlook.com 5

6. Tariq Al-Basha @ albashatariq@outlook.com 6
Jordanian Youth lack the
skills of painting.
If they are given the proper
training to build their
capacity, they can perform
the work.
To guarantee the success of this initiative,
fundraising campaign shall be launched to
cover the cost of painting materials, its
accessories, and trainers as well as a financial
compensation to the youth against painting the
interior walls of the mosques.
The Government of Jordan
can encourage the donors and
sponsors through giving them
100% business and
individual tax deductions of
the amounts donated to this
initiative.

7. Tariq Al-Basha @ albashatariq@outlook.com 7
This initiative can create around 26,385 direct jobs if each of the
5,277 mosques need at least 5 workers to perform painting.
Each of participants can at least earn JOD 220 per participating in
painting one mosque [JOD 220 is the minimum monthly wage in
Jordan).
This will inject JOD 5,804,700 in pocket of the youth [Monthly
Minimum Wage JOD 220 X Direct No. of Jobs Create 26,385.
More than 1,000 direct jobs
can also be created to the
professional painters who will
train the youth to perform the
painting activities inside the
mosques [Each professional
painter training, on average, 26
young Jordanian].
Knowledge and life-
time skills can be gained
and can become a
source of income of
those youth throughout
their life.
Mosques can be
maintained to serve the
worshippers.
Overall, mosques are
owned by the public
[Public Ownership].
Other sectors can benefits from this initiative; such as
retailers/wholesalers of painting buckets & its
accessories, transporters of those items, and producers
of those items.