Local crafts for local community: these workshops are to help secure a source of steady income for villages during covid and coup and also to inspire the next generation crafters. MRBEA and its master weavers have resumed their craft programs for hands-on rural crafts and skills training, starting from this July, 2022 at Nga Yoke Kaung Taung Village, Ayarwaddy Region. This village is selected due to its proximity with dense forests and their main source of income is from illegal logging. A total of 34 students registered and attended for the lessons on weaving, making furniture and treatment methods. The program is designed to cover all the necessary steps to kick start a sustainable job for a home weaver or a family of home weavers.
The program consists of 6 modules –
- Bamboo Craft
- Bamboo Furniture
- Rattan Craft
- Rattan Furniture
- Nursery and
- Rattan and Bamboo Treatment.
The 6-module program itself will continue till the end of 2022. After the end of the program, MRBEA will launch the next step in training quality improvement for the new crafters, thereby ensuring their products are up to the necessary quality standards as required in the local market and eventually for export.
