The productive families in the Kingdom of Bahrain possess a long history beginning with hand-made items in handicrafts that were practiced by the ancient people of Delmon civilization. Therefore, the productive families project which the Ministry of Social Development is undertaking to develop and improve is based on the foundation of a variety of heritage products and modern ones as well.
The Bahraini: productive families project aims at supporting and developing the projects of these families through proper training and financing, and through specialized services such as marketing, management, and provision of production units (productive kitchen, industrial tailoring, ceramic production). Also it aims at the provision of a unit for design and creativity to develop the products, information technology unit to enhance the external marketing, and a number of selling centers and permanent exhibitions in various Governates. The project aims also to give an official form for these projects and assures the required care and participation from all Governmental, national, and private sectors.
Registration of Productive Families and Authorizing their Work
The Productive Families can be registered through completing the “Productive Home” registration form that is obtained from the Directorate of Childhood and Family Development, or from any welfare centre.
The families are trained first on crafts, handicrafts and heritage occupations such as tailoring, embroidery, ceramic production, and food products. Also, the families are trained on the way to start a small project and the method to develop it through the production units.
The most important units are:
-Productive kitchen
-Productive tailoring
-Home farming
-Ceramics
And also through training courses:
-Women hairdressing
-Courses in the art of marketing
-Courses in the art of wrapping gifts.
-Workshop on the methods of preparing successful commercial advertisement.
-Courses in reports printing and translation
-Courses in manufacturing heritage hand made products.
Also through the workshops that exist in the capitals complex and these are:
-Ceramic development workshop
-Jewelry development workshop
-Innovation and development centre
-Information technology unit
And Sitra Complex for Productive Families and these are:
The Ministry in collaboration with the United Nations Developmental Programme and with a number of national societies that are pioneers in the Kingdom, provide the financing programme (Microstart) in order to fund the families with the money that they need to start their projects.
The provision of a number of production units is made
through the social development centers that spread throughout the
Kingdom. These units work in the fields of ceramics, pottery, production of
gifts and food products through the productive kitchen, and the industrial
units for tailoring.
The national project for the development of productive families provides a number of services in the fields of promoting and marketing the products through organizing an annual market for the products of these families, in addition to implicating the families’ projects in exhibitions and markets that take place in the Kingdom and abroad. Also, the Ministry in cooperation with a number of commercial complexes provides positions for the families products in these complexes on temporary or permanent basis. Furthermore, a permanent place for the families was opened at BahrainInternationalAirport in order to become the centre for the promotion of families products for the Kingdom’s visitors and departing people.
The Ministry of Social Development is currently seeking to open up a unit for innovation and design for the productive families in the Capital’scomplex in order to develop the ideas and products of the productive families. One of the models ofsuccessful productive families project is the “Queen Factory’
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