Chile: further artisan tanning courses for rural communities
25/04/2014
In mid-April, 11 people from the area around Coyhaique completed a course in artisan tanning methods, offered as part of a government programme called Productive Development.
Local mayor, Alejandro Huala, said afterwards: “We are opening up employment opportunities for local people with this initiative, using material that used to be thrown away or sold very cheaply. Now local people are learning to use the material to make artisan products, which they can sell to help feed their families.”
At the end of 2013, local women in Panguipulli, 1,000 kilometres to the north, but still in remote southern Chile, completed a similar course.
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