Ruwomed is the name of a European project that is developed by the Assembly of Cooperation for Peace that pursues the empowerment of women in rural areas of Palestine and Lebanon. Within the program, these women have traveled to Spain to get to know cooperative initiatives similar to theirs.
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Ser-Vidas en Red: the union of rural women in La Alpujarra to make their work known
Ser-Vidas en Red is a platform created in Granada’s Alpujarra with the aim of making the activities of women in this rural area known. Through this site, almost a hundred women offer their products and services.
Experience-based rural tourism: a new way to get to know Andalusia by the hand of its artisans
An Andalusian website offers rural tourism participating in local activities. It consists on getting to know the towns of Andalusia trough crafts workshops and gastronomy, depending of the place the tourist is visiting. It is also a way to recover old professions and to benefit small artisans.
Alpandeire recovers beekeeping to offer a future to young people who come back to the rural life
The Andalusian town of Alpandeire, a small town that barely reaches 300 inhabitants, has recover the tradition of beekeeping to offer a labour future to young people who are coming back from the city; the same people that some years ago moved ti the big city looking for a job.