About 10 disabled female breadwinners have benefited from the income-generating project implemented by Qatar Charity (QC) in Mauritania. It included distributing sewing machines and holding preparatory courses on sewing and embroidery.
QC aims at fighting poverty, especially among the disabled persons and the breadwinners. This project seeks to provide a fixed income to the beneficiaries through their use of the sewing machines, which were given to them after good training.
The disabilities of the benefiting female-breadwinners were varied; some of them were handicapped, and others suffered from partial paralysis.
The sewing machines were delivered to the disabled women during the honouring ceremony organised by QC in co-operation with Mauritanian Association for Assisting the Handicapped, the partner responsible for the project’s implementation.
Some of the figures who attended this ceremony are the head of the department for handicapped persons in the ministry of social affairs, the mayor assistant of Arafat Municipality in Nouakchott, and QC’s director of social care department in Mauritania office.
QC had implemented several income-generating projects in different cities and villages in Brakna, Mauritania. The projects included eight conventional bakeries from which around 7,000 people benefited.
The bakeries have rooms for bread and dough. The most appropriate kind of ovens to equip these bakeries with was brick ovens because these areas, where the project was implemented, don’t have electricity. As for the construction of the bakeries, they were built according to modern technologies so that they would not suffer from the problems brick bakeries
generally face.
One of the beneficiaries of the project.
