We started the set of workshops to capacity people to work with local straws to produce venetian blinds. This is part of the IADB project "Cultura em Foco” and the work with straw was identified as one of the most important in terms of income for people who work with hand crafts in Santa Luzia. The main problem is that they make products with low value and this reinforce the continuous cycle of poverty. The project now intends to establish a new line of products that have a higher value not only by producing a better good (quality and market) but also by working a brand that integrates local identity, sustainable management of local material.
In the photos below you see some images of this 1st workshop, where people (several ladies now!) learned how to build the looms we bought (2) and also to make the first steps of venetian blinds. More 4 workshops are planned during the project lifetime.
We hope you soon can be able to purchase venetian blinds produced in Santa Luzia do Itanhy by using local straws.
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