Carpentry training program opens for Saudi women

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.