Arts And Craft Course To Create Women Entrepreneurs
KUCHING, April 5 (Bernama) -- A programme to createinterest in arts, craft and cooking among housewives and women was recentlycarried out in Lundu, about 100km from here, to enable them to venture intosmall businesses.
The programme was carried out in collaboration with Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB), and the Malaysian Muslim Women's Welfare Organisation (Perkim) with assistance from the Community College in Mas Gading, Bau, said the wife of the Special Advisor in the Chief Minister's Office Tan Sri Adenan Satem, Puan Sri Jamilah Anu.
She told Bernama, here that the programme was being held once a month and for the first programme, more than 60 women, including housewives, attended the course free of charge to provide them with basic skills including in flower arrangement and embroidery.
She said the course catered for residents in areas around Lundu including Kg Gading, Sekambal, Stunggang Melayu, Blungei, Sebuloh Cina and Pandan.
"I want them to continue to be creative and create new ideas and to commercialise these ideas. This would make Lundu famous as a centre for embroidery and generate lucrative income for their family," she said.
Jamilah was confident that within two years, the programme to provide skills in flower arrangement and embroidery to the women folks in Lundu would achieve the desired results.
In fact, she said, Lundu which is located in the Tanjung Datu state constituency where her husband is the State Assemblyman, had the potentials to be developed as a small and medium industrial area in the fields of landscaping, orchid planting and bamboo products.
Meanwhile, a resource person in embroidery, Nazrina Bakar said the classes were conducted free of charge but participants had to purchase their own materials for the course.
A participant, Sharifah Haria said she had learnt a lot during the one-day course.
Lundu, which has a population of 30,000 made up mostly of the Bidayuh community, is famous for its crackers and traditional cakes.
-- BERNAMA
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