MiCultura continues engineering accreditation program at Colón, Chiriquí and Coclé
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Panama, 21 October 2020 - About 257 artisan from the provinces of Colón, Chiriquí and Coclé were included in the accreditation program undertaken by the Ministry of Culture, through the National Handicrafts Directorate, as part of the initiatives of the Colmena Plan leading the National Government to guarantee to the public the right to development.
The MiCultura team moved to these provinces to continue with the accreditation program that aims at keeping a national register, with the aim of recognizing the artisan, production and origin of crafts, evaluating production quality, promoting commercialization and especially strengthening artisan development.
In the tourist community Emberá Quera, an ethnic village of Emberá, located at the banks of Lake Gatún, a Reg of Lemon, District and Province of Colón, 14 artisans dedicated to fibre, jewelry and jewelry activities, crafts and carved wood have been entered into the national register of crafts and have formally acquired their identification as entrepreneurs that contribute to the national economy and tourism.
At the same time, 139 people dedicated to jewelry and jewelry, textiles, crafts and plastic arts, in the Highlands and Puerto Armuelles sectors, and in the province of Chiriquí have been accredited and have been given the capacity to participate in strategic sales points such as bazares, trade fairs and crafts, and have been regularly developed throughout the country, as well as training, support and programs for microentrepreneurs.
Following this day of accreditation, as part of the Pinta 'o Hat Fest, 104 artisan dedicated to fibre activity in general from La Pintada District, in the province of Coclé, have their credit that they recognize as an artisan, enabling them to participate in national and international fairs and to market their products through shops and craft markets offered by the National Handicrafts Section of the Ministry of Culture, as well as the benefits established by Act 11 of 22 February 2020.
Jaime Luna, national master of crafts, indicates that once more artisan have been recruited from difficult locations, visiting their communities, with an emphasis on this artisan work of rural women, as they represent 80%, helping us quickly to get them into our database digitally.
Soon with the support of the Government of Panama and the National Aeronaval Service (SENAN) we will be at the Archipelago of Las Perlas where there are a great number of artisans dedicated to work with shells, scales and fish bones, sand and other waste from the sea. The idea is to try to register as many artisan products as are made in our country.
Local authorities, representatives of allied partners, accompanied at each of these locations the personnel of the MiCultura National Board of Crafts to follow up, propose programs for the benefit of these artisan groups, training them, performing institutional offer and monitoring local activities to meet these needs, as established by the Colmena Plan leading by the government of President Laurentino Cortizo Cohen, which has as its premise the fight against poverty and inequality.
