Projects involving microfinance, information technology, trade development, handicrafts and tourism last six weeks or longer.
The site was first settled by German Pietists led by Francis Daniel Pastorius in 1683, and the development of handicraft industries (weaving, tanning, and wagon building) led to prosperity.
Handicrafts matter in country development and promotion.
She graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology and was a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana from 1993 to 1995, where she worked on small enterprise development in indigenous handicrafts.
Tlemcen supports a bustling trade in agricultural products and textile (including silk), leather, and metal handicrafts and has some light industrial development.
During the Warring States period (403 221 BC), the development of private commerce, new trade routes, handicraft industries, and a money economy led to the growth of new urban centers.
But over the last couple of years, it has become a favored destination among seasoned travelers, partly because it is not yet overcrowded; partly because it has the most evocative (and best-run) fort museum in the region (Mehrangarh Fort, below, top); and partly for the exceptional shopping, which owes to the city's development as the principal Indian center for exports of handicrafts.
Peace Corps Volunteer,Jennifer Krottinger, has helped this group grow into an effective women's group, bringing women together to engage and actively participate in learning traditional sewing and handicrafts techniques for preservation of tradition, and to create positive and sustainable economic development for women.
Metallurgy thus remained essentially a handicraft.
