Quang Ngan is a disadvantaged village in Vi Xuyen district, Ha Giang province inhabited by 300 jobless women. To help them, the village Women’s Union has encouraged its members to make handicraft products to boost local tourism and get income. |
The Australian Government has provided VND478 million for the Women Union to buy machines and equipment and run training courses on brocade and palm weaving skills for Dao ethnic minority women. |
Machines with advanced technology have helped a local woman make 30 pieces of palm lattices per day, instead of just one previously. |
Selling palm lattices and sedge mats to tourists. |
Under these projects, Australia has helped devise marketing plans and improve the quality of products to meet customers’ needs. |
Forty Dao ethnic minority women in Dong Van District have got selected for a vocation training. |
As a good result of the training courses, each Dao woman now can earn VND3 million monthly from making brocade products |
Australian Ambassador to Vietnam Hugh Borrowman has made a fact-finding tour of Ha Giang to monitor the implementation of the project. |
