AMMAN —
Ayla Oasis Development Company has
held the first of its kind training workshop on mosaic art in cooperation with
the Directorate of Tourism of the Aqaba Governorate. The workshop comes as part
of Ayla’s continuous efforts to support and develop the local community in the
southern region. According to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
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The workshop, which was attended by 17 participants
from community associations in Aqaba, falls within Ayla’s social responsibility
strategy framework, that supports initiatives aimed at developing the local
community. Through the rehabilitation and training of young women and men while
providing them with a new and important handcraft needed by the tourism sector
in the port city to help them enter the labor market.
Ayla’s Managing Director, Sahel Dudin said: “Since
its establishment in the city of
Aqaba, Ayla has been committed to implementing
its societal role in addition to its economic and investment roles, with the
aim of contributing to achieving the vision in creating comprehensive and
sustainable development in the city. The mosaic training workshop is part of
these efforts and reinforces the partnership principles between public and
private sectors through our cooperation with the Aqaba Governorate Directorate
of Tourism.”
Dudin stressed the
importance of the workshop, which is the first of its kind in the mosaic art
training field in the Aqaba governorate, pointing out that on one hand, this
workshop will help teach the young a new craft and profession that will help
them enter the labor market, and on the other hand, it sheds light on the
history of mosaic art going back to Roman and Byzantine ages.
Director of
Tourism in the Aqaba Governorate, Imad Rawahneh, confirmed that the partnership
with Ayla is a model for the public and private sectors, pointing out that this
partnership was reflected in the joint cooperation and the holding of various
workshops in a way that serves the development goals in the Aqaba Governorate.
Rawahneh pointed out to the importance of the
workshop in qualifying the youth and easing their entry into the labor market,
in addition to exporting the mosaic paintings they produce abroad.
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