elevated for women entrepreneurs hyacinths

Determined to establish itself, a new career, Ms. Huynh Thi Anh Nguyet Thanh My area, Thanh Thuong Ward (Cai Rang - Can Tho) has established cooperative (cooperative) Kim Hung, specializing in producing and exporting handcrafted products made from water hyacinth. Over the years, the cooperative has helped 2,000 women in the province have a job and a stable income, gradually improving their lives.

Roads in the area now Thanh My are concrete chemical clean condition. Ask the hyacinth weaving Nguyet, from the elderly to young children who also directed enthusiasm.
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Located on the quiet side canal, cooperative Kim Hung always bustling, crowded with several dozen employees working women. The hyacinth stalks rough, rustic which is rife on the river Mekong Delta, cantering briskly through hand knitting, braiding of the sisters have become shopping bag, flower pots, lovely round rug, which are Popular the world market. Thanks hyacinths, many families have more income in harvest time.

According to the Cooperative Union City. Tho, regional economic cooperation of the city now has more than 2,000 rural women workers in skilled weaving water hyacinth, average income of 1.5 to 2 million VND / person / month. Not only utilize water hyacinth grows naturally in rivers, canals, this job also create jobs for hundreds of families in the neighboring province of Hau Giang, Soc Trang joining hyacinth plant to supply regular supply of raw materials for the cooperative. Industry leader in the development of this profession is Ms. Huynh Thi Anh Nguyet, Chairman of the Cooperative Kim Hung.

Almost 5 years, she has worked closely with the association to organize vocational training programs to lead and contribute to job creation for rural women workers.

Not the first to discover the hyacinths can make these unique handcrafted items, but her Moon is considered to be the first person to attract thousands of women workers engaged in weaving cooperative with continental average. For this craft alive and growing, she regularly coordinate with the Department of Labour - Invalids and Social Affairs, WU continuous vocational training classes to help you have the time to study conditions are skilled . In addition to technical assistance, funding job training and her operatives also consume the entire product purchase prices stable.

Six Nguyen Thi Nhon Binh hamlet (Nhon Ai - Phong Dien) said: "At harvest, our women have nothing to do. 8/2009, we are sisters in vocational WU hyacinth weaving, how much their products are fully cooperative purchasing Kim Hung. On average, each day I knit about 8 product, rate of VND 30,000. There are more professional, fun family atmosphere gets more and more because we have more money to cover living expenses, for the children to school. "

Nguyet said, after a while learn, to know, May 2/2006, with the support of the Cooperative Union City. Tho, you are set up cooperatives Kim Hung and vocational training for women, and directly seek partners signed processing contracts hyacinth products. Those early days, she faced many difficulties, but with determination and youth, she has surpassed them all. Especially, after signing a contract with a company that exports of handicrafts in Vinh Long, the cooperative's sales increased continuously, from 148 million the first year and by 2010 had increased to 7 billion . In 2010, Kim Hung was selected cooperatives typically reported at the conference exemplary cooperative city. Tho on the model developed at the local craft.

City. Can Tho is 12 cooperative managers are women, accounting for about 6% of the total 227 active cooperatives. Among them, Ms. Moon is considered by many as the "wing" leader, but by age, profession very young age, but she cooperatives to create jobs and increase incomes of more than 2,000 rural women, contributing to its position and role of women in the process of building collective economic movement in Can Tho.