Poverty Alleviation through Economic Development
15 January 2012
"CeraDisi" is a Community Prosperity Initiative implemented in cooperation with
the Disi Women Association.
Fourteen women from Disi village are now employed as full time artisans and
saleswomen at the ceramics workshop and at the Wadi Rum’s visitor center
shop, which was established in cooperation with the USAID/ACED Program.
Over the last year, "CeraDisi" trained 12 women on technical skills to enable
them to shape, mold and bake ceramics in addition to an extensive artistic
training in collaboration with the artist Hazem Al-Z'ubi.
Women from the Association highlight the importance of the project on their
economic situation and position in their community. Nour, 21, emphasized the
impact this project is having not only on her life but on her family as well: “I felt
equal to my brothers when I was able to buy fodder for the sheep with my first salary.”
Nujoud, 21, also believes that she has been empowered: “Now I am able to buy
my own personal necessities. I'm not dependent on my father or brothers for that
anymore.”
Najah, 34, a mother of four mentions the impact this project has had on her
relationship with her family: “I'm more confident now, I am an artisan and I am good
at it. For the first time in my life I am able to buy my husband a gift.”