Making a living

Community Centres run by ERA Consumer and Friedrich Naumann Foundation teach women income generating skills.

Community Centres set up across Malaysia continuously organise various activities to help raise self-confidence, awareness and socio-economic status of the people in the communities. The Centres and their activities are part of the project of women empowerment, funded by the European Union.

Income generation skills are taught together with marketing skills to help the women make additional income for the family.

One skill training programme that was held taught participants to make beads basket. The objective is to provide participants with a new skill to enable them to earn extra income. They are also offered advice on sourcing for sales channel by either delivering products to a distributor or possibly starting their own small business.

With such skills they are able to work at their own flexible working hours and at the same time help and teach others in the community to learn to make the products as well.

The cost of making a small basket is relatively quite low and does not require a large sum of initial outlay. There is a demand for these small decorative baskets which also functions as egg container, popularly used in Malay weddings.

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