By Ingrid Leinus | communications and PR
10th of September took place a workshop in Ban Hay Village, 790 camp, where 23 participants formed their community policy and steering committee. Women are divided to 4 groups, each has a leader, an assistant and a secretary. Each group will manage the micro credit and assure the quality of products. Steering committee will do the overall coordination.
This workshop was a big step towards independent women cooperative. Women had to realize that it’s their responsibility to organize their work together to produce high quality fabrics. Participants had many questions, like when they can sell their products. Souly QuachAngkham, SEDA’s Director replied: “When you have stable cooperative members and you are ready to deliver high quality products and to respond to large orders, then I would say that the marketing won't be the problem”.
It was a big day for women, their motivation and self-confidence raised and they are optimistic about the future. Common cooking and festive lunch helped to build the strong team.
Women were very inspired to design their own logo. Their sketch of logo will be finalized and selected by the end of this year.
SEDA will continue with trainings about technical and business skills, quality control and marketing. For sustainability SEDA is training young trainers and leaders in youth training program, who will implement these trainings with supervision of Souly QuachAngkham.
Women need help with micro credit more than ever, please help to continue the project.
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