About Us
About RSCN’s Socioeconomic Projects
RSCN’s handicraft
workshops are part of the socioeconomic
development program for local communities. Eighteen handicraft workshops have been
set up in the past decade and are currently operated and managed by RSCN. The
eighteen workshops are located in and around different RSCN managed nature
reserves in an effort to spread benefits to different underprivileged local
communities.
These workshops help to
conserve nature by providing new sources of income and employment for families in
villages near to nature reserves to reduce their dependency on the reserves’
natural resources. Our workshops use the natural assets of protected areas to
create sustainable economic and social benefits for local communities.
Over 60 local women
have been empowered through the workshops by providing them with employment, and
are helping to alleviate poverty in areas that offer few other employment
opportunities.
These thriving
handicraft enterprises are making conservation important to the lives of local
communities by providing alternatives to hunting, overgrazing and a number of
other threats to wildlife habitats in Jordan.
The unique and
high-quality products are wonderful as souvenirs, gifts or to decorate your
home, and can be customized for corporate and large orders.