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4월, 2022의 게시물 표시

Women Empowerment Project in Myanmar

  The efforts to find the dream of Myanmar women continue!   Since 2020, Seoul YWCA has been supporting income generation through vocational training for women in Thandaunggyi, Karen State, Myanmar and has provided trainings on women’s rights for gender equality. In the midst of difficult circumstances such as the threat of COVID-19, soaring prices in the market and all the turbulences across Myanmar , we carefully restarted the Women’s Empowering Project to proceed with various vocational training as being planned. From February to March, an advanced sewing course was held, which has been ongoing since 2020. By developing further from previous trainings, the participants made various sizes of cross-body bags, tote bags, and travel bags with using the traditional pattern fabrics of the Karen tribe in Myanmar. In order to lead to the actual sales and generate profits, they created bags of various designs by paying attention to