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    Women displaced by "Embroidery" to support their families in Samarra

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    Women displaced by "Embroidery" to support their families in Samarra Empty Women displaced by "Embroidery" to support their families in Samarra

    Post by Rocky Sun 28 Jan 2018, 1:26 am

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    Women displaced by "Embroidery" to support their families in Samarra


     Salah al-Din / AFP 

    She puts a box of plastic in front of her and begins to pick the beads for her shawl in tight threads. She is the same as her friends in a Samarra school that has become a shelter for displaced women and has found in their manual work a door to support their families. About a year ago, Iman Ahmed Kazem, 51, gathered women from Nineveh and Salahuddin provinces to flee their homes to escape the battles of Iraqi forces against an organized organization and start a project that would provide them with the financial benefits they could afford. Inside the Atwar Bahjat school in Al Muthanna district in Samarra, the women study the ground inside the classrooms, which have become a lively workshop with the colors of the beads distributed in the place.
    In a room covered with blue and gray cloth and carpeted, the women's work stretches near a large, off-the-shelf heater on a journey from Samarra, a lighthouse dating back to the Abbasid period, to the Eiffel Tower in Paris. "We started with something and got to something else," says Eman, a civil activist: "We wanted to kill the vacuum [for displaced women] because the vacuum creates problems." 
    "We have drawn families with handcrafts, especially the beads, and we trained 125 women on this craft, which is unique and few in Iraq," she said.
    Among these women, 41-year-old Mita Rahim, who fled south of Tikrit after only the elements calling her family's home land. "We have been embraced here and we have learned a craft (...) that has become a family aid," she told an AFP correspondent. Khawla Jarallah, 41, who fled from the same area in 2013 to Baghdad, sits until she ended up in Samarra after she and her family faced difficult living conditions. "The project helped us to provide our needs," she said. Each family is divided into a classroom. In one of them, the sound of the old wooden embroidery machine, similar to the sound of bullets, is louder.
    But that voice, which is well known to women's ears, was only a catalyst for creative sewing. Near the women who walk around and inspect the colorful embroidered dresses hanging on the walls, Fawzia al-Azzawi points out that embroidery was one of her hobbies. "The knitting sessions here allowed us to develop our skills," said the 40-year-old from Samarra. "We started sewing clothes, simple suits, graduation gowns and so on."





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