Women's pottery group, El Fashir, Darfur
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Authors
Margaret Gardner
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30/01/2015
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Womens pottery group, El Fashir
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Women’s Pottery Group – El Fashir There are 257 women in pottery women’s group. We have been working here for 26 years. We are wives of the blacksmiths. It is our tradition to make pottery. (traditionally they were regarded as a lower caste – both blacksmiths and potters – no intermarriage, no eating together etc with other castes). Practical Action has done many things for us – animal restocking, goats and donkey, credit for small loans, training in pottery etc. Practical Action helped us to make different products including big pots for household storage, flower pots, zeer pots as a refrigerator and improved stoves. Also Practical Action has helped us with advanced equipment, we now use potters wheels. Before Practical Action our children can hardly reach up to the 5th level of primary school and then they would have to drop out. Now for the first time our children are able to stay at school. Of our group for both potters and our husbands who are blacksmiths 7 of our children have been able to go to university and two have graduated. In the past we carried mud and water on their head. Now we have donkeys. Our lives are better. When you carry things on your head you get pain in your neck on your back. I also used to pain in my chest also (she holds her hands over her heart). I have been working with Practical Action 6 years.
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