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Craft Workshops at the Community Development Centres: No Fee, and Register a Fortnight Ahead

For Kuwaiti women only, one civil ID is enough, and attending the whole course is a condition.

A wooden weaving shuttle

The community development centres run a series of art and craft workshops aimed at Kuwaiti girls and women, and the stated purpose is economic empowerment — the craft is taught to become a source of income, not a hobby.

The fee

Zero. No fixed fee and no variable one.

The three conditions

  • The participant must be a Kuwaiti national.
  • Attending for the whole duration of the workshop — no partial attendance.
  • Registering two weeks before the workshop runs. That is the clause that costs people their place: anyone asking about a workshop in its own week has missed it.

The paperwork

A copy of the civil ID, and nothing else. The procedure is filling in a participation form.

Why it is mentioned alongside “productive families”

The same community development centres also run marketing exhibitions for productive families — so in principle the path is complete: you learn the craft in the workshop, then the product is shown at the exhibition. Anyone who has been through the workshop knows the second door.

Photo: a wooden weaving shuttle. By Selwyn Wright, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

Source: Kuwait’s e-government portal, the “art and craft workshops at community development centres” service.

Kuwait One, once a week.

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