The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA), the nation’s main help physique, introduced Saturday night it offered tools assist to a nongovernmental group (NGO) that carries out actions for kids, youth and girls within the Algerian southern metropolis of Timimoun.
All the coaching and workshop wants of the Tigurarin Association, one of many well-established associations in Timimoun, within the Great Sahara Desert have been met by TIKA.
Türkiye’s Ambassador to Algeria Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş and TIKA’s Algeria coordinator Gökçen Kalkan attended the supply ceremony held on the Tigurarin Association in Timimoun.
“This assist to the Tigurarin Association has made us very blissful as a result of this affiliation is making an attempt to revive the standard artwork of carpet weaving, which lasted till the Nineteen Forties after which light into oblivion,” Ambassador Göktaş stated whereas talking to Anadolu Agency (AA).
Pointing out that particularly the ladies of the area who’re skilled in conventional carpet weaving by the affiliation contribute to their households economically, Göktaş said that with the assist offered by TIKA, ”many ladies will be capable of obtain coaching on find out how to make conventional rugs and may have the chance to work from their houses.”
TIKA’s Algeria Coordinator Kalkan then again stated that they created a category inside the affiliation to be able to present theoretical coaching to younger folks on carpet manufacturing. He stated that they provided looms to this affiliation working in Timimoun, noting that many idle looms already present on the middle handed by means of the method of repairment as nicely.
“Efforts to revive traditional carpet production, which has been neglected for many years, are present in significant measure in recent years. This association is leading the way to regain lost motifs and production techniques,” Kalkan additionally famous.
Stating that Timimoun is a metropolis that started to develop by way of desert tourism, Kalkan additionally identified that the actions undertaken by the affiliation will assist to contribute to rising financial alternatives for ladies there.
