I hope this photo-rich article will inspire you to visit the Ploughshare Women’s Project in Gondar. For information on other places to visit in this amazing country, as well as travel tips, please read my Complete Ethiopia Travel Guide.
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Our Visit
After most of our group, with whom we had toured Ethiopia, had dispersed, the four of us who remained shared a taxi to visit a craft project in Wollika, three kilometres from Gonder. The Ploughshare Women’s Project was started by a Scot twenty years ago to help disadvantaged women. Over the years, 1200 such women – widows, disabled, those affected by HIV and GM – have been helped. There are currently 42 women living at the project. They are given board and lodgings and are taught a skill – weaving, pottery or basket making – which they can then take back to their villages and pass on to others.
There is no charge for visiting the project, but you are encouraged to buy something from the on-site shop. With hand-crafted products of such high quality, you’d be hard-pushed to resist! I came away with several metres of glorious woven woollen cloth.
Beautiful handwoven fabric
Watch this Video
This video gives a sense of life at the Ploughshare Project and shows one of the ladies preparing coffee in the traditional way.
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