Basma Elkhereiji is first and foremost a mother and a wife and that is what informs her entrepreneurial spirit.
With a background in international business and marketing, she started her working career in marketing.
Her entrepreneurial instinct soon took over and she decided to pursue her passion, creating healthy and wholesome food.
She opened her first cafe in 2013 to rave reviews, serving simple foods made with quality ingredients. With her initial success, Elkhereiji decided to open her first restaurant, The Social Kitchen.
She wanted to replicate her initial success on a larger scale and give herself the space to test her creativity and pursue her passion.
A serial entrepreneur, Elkhereiji is engaged in several other projects including The Social Kollective, an online lifestyle store where she curate’s products that she believes in and uses herself.
For Elkhereiji, commercial success is secondary, her work and pursuits are guided by her principals. She regards her role as a mother and role model as very important and strives to lead a path that her daughters can follow and be proud of.
TheFace: Basma Elkhereiji, Saudi entrepreneur and owner of the Social Kitchen
TheFace: Basma Elkhereiji, Saudi entrepreneur and owner of the Social Kitchen
Saudi Arabia pays Yemeni government $346.6m to meet salary shortfall
- The payment is part of the Kingdom’s ongoing work to promote stability and development for the Yemenis
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has provided $346.6 million (1.3 blln SAR) to help pay Yemeni government employees the massive shortfall in their salaries.
The payment, under a ruling by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, was delivered through the Saudi Program for Development and Reconstruction of Yemen (SDRPY).
The payment is part of the Kingdom’s ongoing work to promote stability and development for the Yemenis, the SDRPY said in a statement released on its X.com account.
The statement added that the initiative aimed to strengthen economic, financial and monetary stability in Yemen, enhance the capacity of government institutions, improve governance and transparency, and enable the private sector to drive sustainable economic growth.
Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council chairman Rashad Al-Alimi thanked the Saudi royals for the support, describing it as an extension of the Kingdom’s longstanding support for the Yemeni people.
And Al-Alimi said the support sent a message of confidence in Yemen’s path of recovery as well as the in the government’s ability to strengthen national institutions and reinforce security and stability.
Adding that Yemen’s ongoing partnership with Saudi Arabia represented an important choice for a more stable future.
And he called for a unified effort to support the reconstruction of the country’s instituions, as well as improve living conditions and advance economic and social development.
