Houey Hong Vocational Training Centre - Natural Dye Workshop, Vientiane, Lao
The Houey Hong Vocational Training Centre for Women provides training and employment for Lao women from disadvantaged backgrounds in the areas of natural dyeing, traditional Lao weaving, tailoring and small business administration. The Centre is located seven kilometers east of Vientiane's city center in Houey Hong Village, Chanthabury District, in Laos
The Houey Hong Vocational Training Centre for Women Weaving workshop
The Houey Hong Vocational Training Centre for Women provides training and employment for Lao women from disadvantaged backgrounds in the areas of ... backgrounds in the areas of natural dyeing, traditional Lao weaving, ... Near Vientiane in Houey Hong Village, Chanthabury District, in Laos
Houey Hong Vocational Training Centre for Women
Training centre benefits extend beyond disadvantaged women.
Awoman and her friends with a deep love for Lao arts and handicrafts have established a centre producing handmade goods that has benefited disadvantaged women in the country for almost two decades.
Mrs Chanthasone Inthavong, the brains behind this initiative, is the founder and director of the Houey Hong Vocational Training Centre in Houey Hong village, Chanthabouly district, Vientiane.
The aim of the project, established in 1998 and financed by a group of Lao and Japanese, is to develop the skills of disadvantaged women, who learn various techniques of weaving and dyeing silks and threads with natural colours, designing and marketing. This has helped the women improve the living standards of their families.
Mrs Chanthasone, 64, lived for many years in Japan, where she graduated in educational administration. She had no knowledge of weaving techniques, but was always interested in teaching women to make handmade goods to improve their lives.
She said she loves handicrafts and began collecting traditional Lao clothes and some foreign fashions in 1979.
Since the centre was established 19 years ago, it has played an important role in helping local residents get jobs and earn a steady income. It has also contributed to supplying handmade products aimed at tourists and boosted the growth of the handicraft sector.
The income from selling products made at the centre is used to run training courses, paying the wages of staff and administrative costs.
About 700 people have so far been trained at the centre, which every year attracts about 1,000 tourists, who come to visit and even practice the dyeing and weaving techniques.
Mrs Chanthasone said most foreign visitors had found out about the centre through Western and Japanese guide books. �Many foreigners have come to visit and to learn about Lao traditions here. Our centre plays a key role in promote Lao cultural activities,� she said.
The centre has both short and long term courses. The short course takes three months and most trainees who participate in this course already have skills in weaving but want to learn about the designing and dyeing of silk or threads through natural methods and marketing techniques.
Dyeing with natural colours is a way to add value to the textiles, and the centre make many natural colours by using raw materials such as crops and plants.
The long term courses see the trainees staying and working at the centre for years. Most of them are from different provinces. After spending four to five years at the centre, they usually start their own businesses after returning home.
Besides organising in-house training, the centre has received funding from international organisations to hold training courses at community development projects across the country.
In Savannakhet province, the centre has trained people under a tourism promotion project. It trained them to make handicraft souvenirs using natural dyeing techniques.
Mrs Chanthasone, who is also President of Action with Lao Children (ALC), said �For next year, we have received funds from international organisations to hold a number of training courses. Many community development agencies receiving foreign support have asked the centre to organise training courses for people in their project areas.�
The ALC is an organisation that publishes books for children and adults, establishes libraries for primary and secondary schools and promotes authors and artists for children's books.
The centre has only 30 staff members, but many of them are experts in weaving, dyeing and tailing. The centre has also received many awards for its design work.
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