As a small business development Volunteer, I worked with carpet weavers in developing their organization. I also worked with cave dwelling nomads that lived in the hills surrounding the village. This is Zahra, one of the nomads who is a weaver,...
As a small business development Volunteer in a rural village in Morocco, I helped develop the local weaving association. One of my projects was re-introducing high quality traditional materials through skill building workshops for the artisans. My...
My host sister Naima is showing us the henna on her hands. Henna is a ground up leaf that is applied to the hand which dyes the skin for several weeks. The local tradition of Amazigh culture is to apply the henna in solid color and to forego the...
As a small business development Volunteer, I helped develop the local weaving association. Zahra was one of my host sisters and one of the most dedicated weavers. I spent a lot of time with her in her house as she baked bread every morning before...
I served as a small business development Volunteer in a rural village in Morocco. I worked with the local carpet weaving association and because all of the weavers were agrarian farmers, I spent a lot of time with the women in the fields. Every...
The girls in my village very eagerly embraced the art club I started. Anywhere between 3 and 15 girls would meet regularly in my kitchen to draw, make jewelry, paint, and dye eggs. Here I am with the girls as we paint Amazigh symbols on the wall of...
As a small business development Volunteer, I worked with carpet weavers in developing their organization. I also worked with cave dwelling nomads that lived in the hills surrounding the village. This is Zahra, one of the nomads who is a weaver....
As a Small business development Volunteer in a rural village in Morocco, I worked with the local weaving association. One of my projects was creating a carpet catalog for the weavers. This took me into all the houses of the weavers where I...
As a small business development Volunteer, I worked with weavers in a rural village in Morocco. The hills surrounding our village were filled with cave dwelling nomads. I became very close with one of these families, the Lahcen Eshu family, and I...
Mouhou Boussine, my counterpart, and I are sitting amongst her drying roses in the Valley of the Roses in Morocco. As a small business development Volunteer, I helped Mouhou develop the weaving association in the village. The weavers were all...