On the 26th of October 2021, within the CADI project, in collaboration with FAO Uzbekistan, a workshop on income-generating activities for rural women of Bukhara and Navoi provinces took place.
The workshop’s main aim is to engage women in alternative income-generating activities to improve their families’ livelihoods, reducing their dependence on grazing and other agricultural activities in cold winter deserts.
During three days of the workshop, women also learned sewing skills, national embroidery, and making wool blankets. The participants combined national flavor and modern fashion trends and made pillowcases, chapans, jackets, bags, and blankets during practical classes.
The workshop was attended by residents of the village Chuya of Nurata district of Navoi province and the village Durman of Karakul district of Bukhara province, 57 women. Experts conducted the classes in embroidery and traditional crafts. One of them is Matlyuba Bazarova, Vice–President of the Central Asian Crafts Support Association.
The workshop report: FAO Uzbekistan Newsletter
