The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) distributed craft instruments amongst Tuareg ladies to facilitate them in making conventional handicrafts within the metropolis of Canet, situated within the Great Sahara Desert within the south of Algeria.
TIKA’s Algeria Coordinator Gökçen Kalkan, Canet Provincial Tourism Manager Emin Hamadi and president of the Association of Women in Need, a neighborhood nongovernmental group (NGO) working all through the nation, Meryem Belaala attended the distribution ceremony held on the Tuareg ladies’s work space in Canet.
Kalkan identified that TIKA plans to unfold its tasks all through Algeria and emphasised that this undertaking contributes to each the employment of girls in want and the event of tourism within the area.
Hamadi said Canet is acknowledged as a world heritage website by UNESCO and a precedence heart of subject tourism by the Algerian authorities and thanked TIKA for his or her help.
Tuaregs, generally known as “Tavarik” in Algeria, are generally known as a big tribe that settled within the Sahara Desert and unfold to Libya, Morocco, Niger, Chad, Mali and Burkina Faso.
Tuaregs, an Amazig-Berber folks, are Muslims and communicate three totally different dialects of Berber. Most Tuaregs, who’ve lived a nomadic life within the Sahara Desert all through historical past, nonetheless keep their conventional life within the nations they dwell in.
In Tuareg tradition, which can be known as “the ancient owners of the Sahara Desert,” ladies play an essential position as a dominant aspect in society.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
