12 · Living PEACE Village
Women's Workshop
Community and opportunity
A working space where women learn, make, mentor and connect practical skill with greater economic agency.
What this experience reveals
From an idea to a lived experience.
The Women's Workshop connects hands-on making with the wider empowerment pathway described in Assalam's annual report. Tailoring, batik, eco-printing and natural-product work sit alongside mentorship and enterprise support, making the relationship between capability and household resilience visible.
- Practical skills
- Mentorship
- Enterprise pathways
- Women's economic agency
Published record
Each figure keeps its own scope so programme totals, site facts and future ambitions are not confused.
- 1,037
- Women received financial support
- Empowerment programme-wide in 2025
- 100+
- Jobs created
- Empowerment programme-wide in 2025
- 70%
- Business sustainability
- Assalam Annual Impact Report 2025, page 28
- +40%
- Household income increase
- Empowerment programme-wide in 2025
Evidence noteThe financial-support, job, sustainability and income figures are 2025 Empowerment programme totals. Workshop-only participation, sales and income outcomes are not yet isolated.
Inside this experience
Knowledge made visible.
Three ways this part of the village connects inherited knowledge, practical learning and community life.
Narrative supplied by Assalam in July 2026 and checked against programme-wide empowerment results in the 2025 annual report.
01
Skills in practice
Learning begins with the hand.
The supplied workshop narrative brings tailoring, batik, eco-printing and natural-soap making into one active space. Participants learn through repetition, material knowledge and exchange with one another.
Each practice can stand on its own, but together they demonstrate how creative and vocational learning can lead toward multiple livelihood pathways.
02
A shared working room
Making becomes conversation.
Visitors encounter artisans while work is being developed, not only after an object is complete. That makes room for questions about technique, time, value and the stories held in local materials and patterns.
The encounter is intended to respect the workshop as a place of work first, with interpretation built around the people using it.
03
From skill to enterprise
A pathway beyond the workshop.
Assalam connects training to mentorship, business support and routes to market such as the Kanga Shop. The wider aim is for practical ability to become greater choice and stability for women and their households.
Published outcome figures currently describe the full Empowerment programme, so workshop-only participation and income change remain clearly separated from those totals.
Pictures and source record
Look closer.
Authentic Assalam imagery and the supplied annual-report record keep the experience connected to real work.
All 12 experiences, one connected village.
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