UNIFIL’s training in crafts for women of Khiam

The UNIFIL’s Eastern Sector Command ended yesterday a 2-week training workshop held at the social cultural center of the southern town of Khiam.  The workshop targeted some 25 girls and women between the age of 8 to 40 years. The course covered training sessions in handicrafts, flower arrangement, sweets and confectionary, first aid, food safety, embroidery, knitting, and house crafts, like metal embossing as well as paper and glass decoration. During the closing ceremony, the Spanish Battalion commander, Brigadier Jose Romero, underlined the main goal of the workshop which is to enhance the skills and know-how of women beneficiaries for their personal benefit or for income-generating purposes and handed the participants certificates to this effect. )Al Mustaqbal, August 24, 2016)