The Children of Female Prisoners (CFPA) Association organized an electronic workshop on Egyptian and African heritage.

The (CFPA) Association, under the leadership of writer Nawal Mustafa, and the Center for Criminal Justice, under the leadership of Winnie Martinez, organized a two-day interactive electronic workshop with the aim of economically empowering marginalized groups.

This comes within the framework of the Ashoka Fellowship. For her part, Nawal Mustafa, CEO and Founder of the (CFPA) Association, explained that the workshop aims to empower women from marginalized groups economically by exchanging experiences in the field of handicrafts that reflect Egyptian and African heritage.

Nawal Mustafa also added that the intensive workshop, which included 12 Egyptian and African women, in collaboration with the Center for Criminal Justice under the leadership of Winnie Martinez, is part of the Ashoka Fellowship program for social entrepreneurship and creating change, which includes 3,700 other fellows around the world in more than 92 countries. Regarding the objectives, the workshop trainers Dr. Khaled Mustafa and Ms. Safi Ramadan explained that the workshop focused on introducing participants to the art of embroidery and its uses, as well as the tools used such as threads, needles, and other equipment, with an explanation of the basic stitches to produce products that reflect Egyptian and African culture. As for the results of the workshop, Ashoka fellow, Nawal Mustafa said that the women produced impressive samples with high precision for “laptop bags” bearing the “Banuta-Yousana” brand made from fabric adorned with drawings and beads in vibrant colors from ancient Egyptian civilization and the heritage of South Africa. At the end of the training, the women emphasized how much they benefited from the workshop and acquiring a new craft that enables them to have a sustainable source of income.