Photoblog: Embroidery Workshop Helps Refugee Women
(Beirut, Lebanon) - Located down a narrow alleyway in the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila in Beirut, is a workshop where women are busy making pillow covers, tablecloths, scarves, caps, wallets, baby clothes and other needlework products.
This is the headquarters of the Syrian volunteer organisation Smile and Olive, where one of the rooms has been turned into an embroidery and sewing centre for Syrian and Palestinian refugees.
The workshop launched on May 20, 2013, and daily work is divided into three morning, lunchtime and afternoon shifts, with the last session dedicated to the most experienced needle-workers.
The workshop gathers together women from a large number of different Syrian provinces: Aleppo, Daraa, Idlib, Hama, Homs, and the Damascus countryside, as well as Palestinians who were themselves refugees in Syria.
Damascus Bureau correspondent Malath al-Zoubi visited the workshop in the first week of December to document some of the work that goes on.
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