The Hasa Girls Development Society has launched its carpentry workshop activities in Qarn.
Around 150 young women will graduate yearly through its training programs. The workshops carpentry workshop is having young qualified women to create different projects and enable them to help themselves and have a stable income.
There will be greater coordination to call on a group of chosen trainers who have the qualifications to train the women. The development society is also asking art teachers to help, as well as hold continuing workshops to help the young female youths to develop their skills in crafts and carpentry.
The family productive projects for the carpentry workshops organizes creative workshops that enable these young women to develop their training abilities and help to develop the skills of others.
The training period of three months includes practical lessons in carpentry, but with the condition that these girls have no asthma or not affected by allergies from dust. They also must be strong enough to withstand the pressures of the profession, The trainees, which must be 18 years old, will receive an approved certificate from the society.
The carpentry workshop is the first of its kind given to young women with five of them working between wood planks by cutting them and coming up with new shapes for offices. The young women will help mentor others annually so that 150 will graduate each year.
The workshop has more than 20 pieces of equipment imported from abroad and includes an electric saw, corners saw, a lathe and many others pieces of cutting equipment.
The Hasa Girls Development Society provides the appropriate project for productive families through providing the marketing opportunities for their products through exhibitions held in important commercial centers in the kingdom.
The society helps all individuals in a skilled way and contributes to develop the community and rehabilitates to become more productive and become skillful and instilling the work ethic, value of handicrafts and encourage consumers to buy distinctive local products.
Carpentry training program opens for Saudi women
Carpentry training program opens for Saudi women
Winners of 27th King Salman Award for Qur’an Memorization to be crowned this week
- The awards ceremony of the men’s event will take place on Friday at the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, the day after the winners of the women’s event are honored
- Total prize pool for the competitions, organized by the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guidance between Feb. 13 and 17, is more than SR7m
RIYADH: The winners of the 27th annual King Salman bin Abdulaziz Award for the Memorization, Recitation and Interpretation of the Holy Qur’an will be honored during special ceremonies this week.
Prince Faisal bin Bandar, the governor of Riyadh Region, will attend the culmination of the men’s event, held under the patronage of King Salman, on Friday at the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
The awards ceremony for the women’s event, held under the patronage of Princess Fahda Al-Hathleen, spouse of King Salman, will take place at the same venue on Thursday.
The total prize pool for the competitions, which were organized by the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guidance and took place between Feb. 13 and 17, is more than SR7 million ($1.87 million). Three winners will be crowned in each of the male and female categories.
Abdullatif Al-Alsheikh, the minister of Islamic affairs, dawah and guidance, who is also the general supervisor of local and international Qur’anic competitions in the Kingdom, said the contest has become one of the most notable competitions of its kind.
