Samar Yahya
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — Princess Fahda Bint Saud Bin Abdul Aziz, president of Al Faisalya Women Welfare Society, signed an agreement with engineer Yehia bin Muhammad Al Shangity, CEO, Gold and Base Metals division in Ma’aden, on “Gold Hand” initiative at the company’s Jeddah office.
“Gold Hand” initiative comes within the company’s social responsibility program and aims to support productive families.
Gold and Base Metals division will finance all the initiative costs with SR770,700 to train 80 women from Mahd Al Dahab governorate at its first phase in sewing, cooking, beauty and computer skills under the supervision of Al Faisalya team who will also train women from the same region to achieve the initiative and in cooperation with development committee in Mahd Al Dahab.
During the agreement signing event, Princess Fahda and Al Shangity discussed more channels of cooperation and Al Shangity wished that “Gold Hand” initiative would be the beginning for more initiatives that aim to women empowerment and work at home.
The “Gold Hand” initiative is a leading one in the kingdom, based on transferring knowledge and experience from main cities to remote regions in a professional and vocational ways.
Preparatory stages took place prior to the launching of the initiative, such as study and social and economic survey about poor families capable of receiving and transferring knowledge to others. The study showed that Mahd Al Dahab region estimates promising trade future for women in cooking, sewing and embroidery, beauty and brides’ cosmetics and computer skills. Training centers are prepared to receive 20 trainees in each specialty, following the completion of the first training program, more groups to be trained to spread the culture of free work.
Al Faisalya Women Welfare Society in Jeddah is named Society in kingdom in productive families empowerment and owns long experience with multiple social and strategic partnerships.
