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Teaching women to sew. |
Women sewing puppets. |
Women sewing wall pockets at YWCA Dhaka |
Sewing hand puppets at YWCA Dhaka |
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The YWCA craft
centre supports, trains and creates job opportunities for more than 400 women
who would otherwise be destitute. The centre is situated in Dhaka and there is
provision for 100 women to work there, The other women work in their own homes
in the poorest parts of the city or nearby villages. The YWCA develop overseas
markets for the Handcrafts they produce and provide many additional services
for the women such as: A compulsory 10% saving scheme, Health and nutritional
advice and subsidised medicines, Legal advice, Interest free loans, Annual
recreation programme, Literacy training for illiterate women, Welfare fund and
generally supports the women in a holistic manner. The YWCA has recently opened a new craft centre 20 kms from Dhaka, in a rural area to cater for the needs of the woman it now trains in Handcrafts from the surrounding local villages. | |||
Corr- the Jute Works was established in 1973 to rehabilitate the war affected, poverty stricken rural women in Bangladesh. It has grown to support over 5000 women in 17 production cooperatives all over the country using Fair Trade principles. The women have traditionally made handcrafted jute products for their own use, but with the assistance and guidance of Corr have developed them into marketable products sold around the world. In the local climate jute grows prolifically and can be harvested annually making it an economical and plentiful raw material for the women to use. The women have been able to help build homes for their families and educate their children to a higher level through the sale of the Handcrafts. |
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