During the circa 15-day-long course 25 participants from Kifri, will be given the chance to develop their textile manufacturing skills. “I did not know anything about sewing before, but with the help of my teachers, I have now learned a lot,” Lania Azad, a participant, told Rudaw’s Hunar Hamid on Friday.
“Our goal is to help the participants benefit from the skills they learned to support themselves and also to reopen the Kifiri carpentry factory, which served the residents of Kifri for many years,” Gulala Hamid, the organizer of the event, told Rudaw on Friday.
The course has now been running for less than 10 days, yet the students have already started creating their own art pieces.
“There are special techniques in this field, and we develop them by working on them every day,” Zana Star, a participant, told Rudaw on Friday.
From 1978 to 1991, the first carpentry factory in Kifri employed more than 250 workers. However, the factory has now been closed for around 32 years and this project constitutes an opportunity to reopen it.
The course is organized by the Haukari Association, the Ministry of Culture and Youth of the Kurdistan Region with the assistance of the Ministry of Finance and Economy.
The Haukari Association is a Frankfurt-based non-profit organization founded in 1995, which implements projects in the field of women’s education, preventive health, social and gender-based violence.
