Craft fair in Akkar for economic empowerment of women

The Economic Empowerment and Community Mobilization for Women Affected by the Syrian Crisis Project which is implemented by UN Women, in partnership with the Lebanese Social Affairs Ministry and in collaboration with Safadi Foundation and the Fair Trade Lebanon, organized last Saturday a handcraft and artisan exhibition in the town of Khreibit Jundi, Akkar, in the presence of the representative of Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas and Akkar Governor Imad Labaki and a number of local community figures. The head of the Economic Empowerment Section at the UNDP Women Regional Office, May Babker, pointed out that the program comes in the framework of a wider regional initiative in five Arab states aimed at realizing economic empowerment of women providers and promoting ways to protect them from exploitation and all forms of violence, while giving them the chance to effectively contribute to rebuilding the economic development of their local communities. (Al Mustaqbal, November 29, 2015)