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Handcraft training centers:
A lot of handcraft training centers established in Aswan to help the young girls to be skill to the labor market.
The state offers a credit loans and equipments to establish micro-projects after training courses.
The Department of Social Affair according to the poverty eradication program established many training and rehabilitation centers for males and females to enhance their skill in beads craft, local hand made carpets, dresses, and palm leaves and reeds productions.
Nubia Museum Craft Center
Since the resettlement process of the early 1960s during the construction of the High Dam, the Nubian population has faced innumerable challenges related to the maintenance of its culture and traditional ways of living, including earning a livelihood. In this process of re-adjustment, the rich cultural heritage of the Nubian community has suffered. Of particular concern is the general neglect of art and handicraft production as the community adapted its lifestyles to cope with its new environment. Nubian arts, crafts and folklore are known to embody and reflect the history and beliefs of this ancient people.
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The situation is such that very few persons below the age of twenty years are knowledgeable about these traditional arts and their associated folklore, intangible heritage and history. Currently, members of the older generation with the knowledge and skills are passing away. The museum has recognized the potential for a major loss of Nubian cultural wealth with the passing of this older generation and is seeking effective ways of stemming this loss.
A feasible approach is to facilitate opportunities for the older generation to educate and train interested members of the younger generation. In an attempt to resuscitate Nubian handicraft skills, involve young Nubian women in income-generating activities and improve basic literacy, the Museum has proposed a nine-month pilot program to transfer skills and traditional knowledge from senior to younger Nubian women.
Since opening, the Nubia Museum has embarked on a series of programs designed to make it a dynamic institution and an integral part of Aswan’s society. Having deliberately moved away from the outdated concepts of a museum being a static place for the exhibition of artifacts, the board and staff are pursuing a strategy to ensure that the museum is part of and responds to the Aswan community. This community strategy includes extensive local and international promotion, the offering of special prices and extended visiting hours for the local visitors, the implementation of a school program unit which allows children to conduct research on Nubian history, and the community utilization of museum facilities for art, drama and other cultural activities.
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The Social Development Fund (SDF) offer loans for young youth to make micro-projects in the field of handcraft to help solving unemployment problems and to create an opportunities for work.
The Department of the Village Development of Aswan Governorate acting in supporting program to implement the poverty eradication program, for that a 6 villages had been selected as pilot project for this program where L.E. 1.000.000 given to each village, an NGO’s already selected to run this program.
These projects include hand crafts, beads crafts, and productions from palm leaves, table cloths productions, furniture, and needle works.
NGO’s also give family loans and equipments to make small projects inside their houses to survive handcrafts and to increase its income too. |
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