Girls' Vocational Training Center

The drought in the southern parts of Iran crippled farmers' lives and brought about many difficulties for nomadic tribes in 1971. Despite the darkness of those days, it initiated the establishment of Girls' Vocational Training Center. Sustaining the art of handicraft and other traditional arts, improving the quality of products, and contributing to families were the purposes of this center in training nomadic girls and women. The instructors were selected among the experienced, elderly women of the tribe who were skillful at various handicrafts. The learners were instructed wool spinning, natural and vegetable dyeing, carper weaving, Jajim weaving, rug weaving, pouch weaving, and other handicrafts. The apprentices were selected from the tribes among which carpet weaving was popular and after a 12-month period of training, they were sent back to their families with a startup capital and equipment to make their own products as well as train others. A number of 510 apprentices completed the program by the year 1978. In 1982 in the management of the center was merged in the Province of Fars's Administration of Education and later was closed permanently.