The group of entrepreneurial ladies from Kastamonu, a Turkish province on the shore of the Black Sea, will introduce the cultural handicrafts, meals and tradition of the area to Portugal and Poland with the undertaking they launched.
The “Women’s Cooperative Handles Art and Local Flavors” cooperative established by ladies from Kastamonu 4 years in the past contributes to the earnings of ladies and brings to gentle the forgotten traditions and handicrafts of the area.
The ladies, who used to advertise and promote geographically marked lithography merchandise, have packaged Kastamonu’s native taste “sour rice” and delivered it overseas.
Likewise, the “EU Digital Artistic Women” undertaking of the talked about cooperative was accepted by the National Agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was entitled to obtain a grant of 30,000 euros (round $32,440). Within the framework of the undertaking, native ladies will introduce Kastamonu’s handicrafts, native dishes and tradition to Portugal and Poland.
Providing details about the undertaking, Kastamonu Art Women’s Cooperative President Serpil Durgut acknowledged that they’d organized a number of earlier endeavors, including: “We have been formally established in 2019. We have been persevering with our actions in a big home in Kastamonu for 4 years and we continued on our means with the tasks of our personal affiliation. One of those tasks was to assist deprived ladies. We achieved it first in Kastamonu, and we obtained a grant of TL 89,000 ($4,735) for this undertaking.”
Durgut additionally famous that they’re very pleased with their cooperative. As the undertaking is said to conventional handicrafts, she mentioned that their intention is to ”go on our forgotten handicrafts from technology to technology, in addition to promote them nationally and internationally.”
”In this course of, Portugal and Poland are our companions. Here, we try to create employment for native ladies by offering coaching and selling our handicrafts. We are pleased with our workforce and ourselves for attaining such profitable work in a interval of 4 years,” she concluded.
