THINK LOCAL !

These past two years were very difficult and tough to all Lebanese citizens. Life was not the same anymore. Lebanon has been and is still facing an economic and financial crisis with the presence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since Lebanon is one of the highest net importers in the world, many firms have closed down and many workers have lost their jobs and became unemployed. Therefore, people have been forced to switch to locally made products.

But supporting local products and businesses isn’t bad at all!

So, why should you support local businesses?

Every local shop relies on the support of loyal costumers to keep its door open.

When you buy any product from a local shop, you are actually helping your community and its people. Actually, when you buy from a small business, you’re not helping a CEO buy a third vacation home. You are helping a little girl get dance lessons, a little boy his team jersey, a mom put food on the table, a dad pay a mortgage, or a student pay for college. Also, you are giving your local economy a chance to thrive since all the money is coming back to your community.

Also, you are supporting creative minds to enhance their ideas and share their unique and simple products to a wide and larger range of people. How? By giving good feedback about the quality of the product while sharing it with your friends and family. Due to the pandemic and social distancing, many people have opened their online local shop on Instagram or Facebook. Therefore, you can support them by promoting their products and sharing their interesting giveaways on your story with your friends. It will be considered as a huge help for local businesses since you are showing their effort on their product.

The ideas of the locally made products are actually out of the box!

Every small business has his own and unique product which is based on the skills, creativity and innovative mind of each local maker. So, when you support local business, you are actually supporting a dream.

As Anna Lappe said “Every time you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you want”

There’s one small business that I would like you to support. This one is for girls who are passionate about fashion or even for boys who would like to gift their mothers, girlfriends or sisters. It is an online local business called “BagsandBrags”. You can check its amazing and unique bags by searching “ bagsandbrags.lb” on Instagram. This is your chance to support local products! So, support and promote them by following the page and share it with your friends!

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