With funding from K2K and PCPP, one girl taught 16 other girls how to screen-print and sew their own jellabas. Girls from this class combined their sewing, crocheting, knitting, and traditional bead-making skills to produce products that will appear at a Marrakesh craft fair I'm planning with other PCVs. Learning business skills along the way, these girls have come up with their own business name and logo, sourced and costed their raw materials, conducted market research online (and created an email account), filled out a budget and project outline, and so much more (too full from dinner/tired from long day). "President Worker" Fatiha is becoming a seasoned traveler: her first trip to Casa was to source fabric and materials for the screen-print class and her first trip to Kesh will be this week for the fair!
(A small sample of their work-in-progress. This collage was created for my personal notes, not as an advertisement. I'm just too excited to wait to share their stuff with my biggest fan, my mom!)
How great to see return on all the effort you put in and frustrating hassles you had to deal with - how wonderful for Fatiha and students to be able to apply all they learned and so well! Kudos to all - and bonne chance at Kesh!
ReplyDeleteWow, and those are the same fabrics we browsed on FB.