Meeting in Lithuania
The thrid project meeting took place between 04. and 06.07.2011 in Sakiai, Lithuania__. The aim of the project meeting was to visit different organizations offering creative workshops, talk to female self-entrepreneurs about their business set-up as well as to exchange about various handracft techniques which are practiced in the region.
Please visit our online Market of Cultures and get some impressive images about the local craftsmenship of Sakiai.
Employment opportunities for creative people
_The project partners as well as the learners of each partner organization visited the Labour Exchange office in Sakiai, where Mrs. Rasa Masteikiene explaned the situation of the unemployed women in the Sakiai region. The biggest group of unemployed women is the one living in rural areas and without formal education.
The Labour Exchange office in Sakiai has different measures to help these and other groups of women suffering from unemployment, one being the support of self-entrepreneurship. The Labour Exchange office sends women to different courses to learn a trade, employs them to twine Christmas wreaths.
The Labour Exchange office in Sakiai has different measures to help these and other groups of women suffering from unemployment, one being the support of self-entrepreneurship. The Labour Exchange office sends women to different courses to learn a trade, employs them to twine Christmas wreaths.
Asta Bybartiene sews foot wear using natural materials. The fabrics for the footwear she receives from furniture factories, thus also contributing to a sustainable handling with resources. She and her husband build an own workshop and warehouse for the home production of footwear next to their home. Mrs. Bybartiene started her business ten years ago. First of all she tried to sew a pair of slippers for her daughter, than for family members. Later friends asked to sew shoes for them, too. She liked this activity. Once she tried to sell slippers and the business started.
What is considered waste at the furniture factory helps to keep up a successful handcraft home business. The inevitable waste from the shoe sewing business can be used even further for the creation of little handrcafted toys, as Nadezda Lanberg from Estonia pointed out. Mrs. Bybartiene happily handed a big bag with remains of the shoe production to her.
What is considered waste at the furniture factory helps to keep up a successful handcraft home business. The inevitable waste from the shoe sewing business can be used even further for the creation of little handrcafted toys, as Nadezda Lanberg from Estonia pointed out. Mrs. Bybartiene happily handed a big bag with remains of the shoe production to her.
Project Number: 2010-1-DE2-GRU06-047401
The project has been funded with the support of the European Commission´s Grundtvig Programme.