KARACHI: Aseefa Bhutto Zardari inaugurated three-day 12th Sindh Rural Support Organisation (SRSO) Sartyoon Sang Crafts exhibition here. Sindh Minister for Health Dr. Azra Fazal Pechuho, Minister for Local Government Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, Chief Executive Officer SRSO Muhammad Dittal Kalhoro, Provincial Secretary Minority Affairs Muhammad Abbas Bolach and others were present.

SRSO organised exhibition in collaboration with Sindh government. Thousands of Sindhi women artisans are displaying their crafts with aim to provide market linkages to rural women and artisans.

Aseefa appreciated endeavours of SRSO for poor and destitute communities and voiced her expectation of continuation of such support for rural communities of province. She met and purchased wares from artisan women, who came from flood-disaster areas and appreciated their work and craftsmanship despite dealing with calamitous situation. First day of the exhibition received an overwhelming response from local and international visitors.

Dittal Kalhoro said that event’s objective was to facilitate better incomes for flood- affected women artisans of rural Sindh. “In this connection, SRSO trained more than 10,000 women from  most under-developed regions including Jacobabad, Kandhkot-Kashmore, Shikarpur, Ghotki, Kambar-Shahdadkot, Khairpur, Sukkur and other districts to help women gain maximum monetary benefit from their skills.”

In exhibition, 95 business development groups are representing 1,572 artisans of 12 districts, displaying and marketing their hand-made crafts including plazo, shalwar, garara, trouser, shawl, duppta, stoles, waistcoat, date leaf, wheat straw, khussa, moora, straw and rillis, bed sheets and cushions.

Published in The Daily National Courier, February, 04 2023

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