Opening of Anabta Cooperative will empower Women

Tulkarem: In cooperation with ACAD and CESVI; funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Palestinian Working Women’s Society for Development opens Anaba Cooperative in Tulkarem. The cooperative was founded within project “Launching Micro-Credit Projects for Women”, which aim to promote women’s role in society, and provide sources of income for women in the city of Tulkarem.

Tulkarem faces difficult economic conditions, therefore the participants in the project strived to found Anabta Cooperative to promote and market women’s products and handicrafts.   

The foundation of Anabta Cooperative was the fruit of prolonged efforts put by the cooperative’s 29 members, with the support of the PWWSD, CESVI and ACAD. PWWSD’s coordinator in Tulkarem, and both of ACAD’s and CESVI’s general directors, in addition to the Representative of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed the need to continue to support similar projects, which assist in women’s empowerment.  

The cooperative was registered in January 2012 in the Cooperation Department in the Palestinian Ministry of Labor.