From the founder’s own struggle as a woman living in Amman, she has changed her house 5 times within 18 months. This has involved packing up all her belongings, spending weeks (or even months) searching online platforms, viewing countless houses, and often encountering uncomfortable situations. Moving into a new house with new people has been a recurring experience.

Reasons varied: uncomfortable housing, mental health distress from flatmates, incompatible flatmates, uncomfortable neighborhoods, and landlords…etc. It wasn’t until 2022 that she could finally find a suitable house!

This undeniably tough experience has left her wondering: Is this something that she only personally faced? Or was it a social issue?

She immediately started talking to hundreds of women from different backgrounds and social statuses about their “house-search & flatmates” experiences. And, not very surprisingly, this was a mass problem for both locals and expats in Jordan! (Insights from the research are available upon request.)

8 months later, She launched SAKAN Blog!

After the launch of the SAKAN blog in November 2022, it received almost 2,000 visits in just two months from all over the world, not just Jordan! This gave her more confidence in the importance and urgency of the issue.

Juggling her own freelance business development and copywriting business and planning for the unclear path forward, she decided to take responsibility and create the “SAKAN platform”, funding it all herself from A to Z!

And so it began! The long journey of finding a decent (on-budget) web developer to bring her vision and thoughts to life!

At the beginning of April 2023, the SAKAN platform (MVP) went live. Since then, it has helped more than 950 women (students and employees) find housing in Amman for both long-term and short-term stays.

Fast-forward to end of 2024, She hired 3 talented people to help her with the work, from copywriting to social media management (on more than 5 platforms) to listing properties and providing tenant and landlord support.

If you happen to know one of these three people, please put us both in touch🤗. It would greatly help our mission and make our lives easier:

• A female tenant looking to find a room
• A property landlord
• An institute that needs support in helping their female students and employees find housing near them