The Ministry of Social Development and the Family represented by the Department of Family Affairs, in cooperation with the Katara Cultural Village, organized the Productive Families Exhibition, which was held in the southern region of Katara during the holy month of Ramadan, and will continue until the fifth day of Eid Al-Fitr.

A number of productive families are participating in the exhibition distributed over 25 shops in the southern region, which includes a number of heritage houses and neighborhoods, during which various products for families are displayed and sold such as folk and traditional clothes, embroidery, abayas, perfumes, cosmetics, incense, baked goods, accessories and handicrafts, in addition to a live display of traditional crafts. And other miscellaneous crafts. The exhibition also presented a variety of heritage activities such as folk games for children, presenting productive families and offering live cooking of Qatari folk foods, which are very popular with the public. A number of participants in the exhibition of productive families stressed to Al-Raya the importance of the exhibition because it reflects Qatari culture and civilization and is concerned with heritage, as well as concerned with the productive family with the aim of empowering it economically. Fatima Al-Nuaimi, Assistant Director of Family Affairs at the Ministry of Social Development and Family, told Al-Raya: The exhibition aims to display the products of families who own home projects and comes within the framework of the Ministry's continuous efforts to open new windows to market the products of productive families, pointing out that the number of participants for this year is 25 projects. Households, which productive families benefit from to display and market their products within the framework of the Ministry of Social Development and the Family’s endeavor to empower productive families economically. She added: The exhibition includes a set of crafts education and free skill training courses for the public.

For her part, a handicraft and handicraft development trainer and one of the participants in the exhibition about the “Al-Naqdah” craft, Nadia Abdul Rahman Al-Mannai, said that her participation aims to highlight this ancient craft that extends back more than 70 years, but is still used today by hand using needles and wicker. Reversing some of the recently mechanized characters. She pointed out that the craft of cash is spinning a number of colored threads, and embroidering them. As for the most used and requested colors, they are silver and gold, and in the past these threads were woven into the pickpocket dress until they were recently introduced into the clothes. Al-Mannai confirmed that the old wicker was sold by weight due to its high value and high price. As for the wicker woven drawings, she said that they are old and borrowed from the environment, such as smokers, sprinklers, fish, sun, roses and other forms. She added: Al-Naqdah workshop simulates all age groups and was recently developed to be used in pillows and hair ties.

As for the participant, Aisha Saad Al-Fahd, she talked about her mother’s project for Qatari folk food, saying that popular dishes such as machboos, harees and porridge have value for the Qatari citizen, and are still present, desired by many, whether from the State of Qatar or from outside, stressing that this participation was not the first and will not be the first The latter, as she previously participated in Darb Al-Saai, and the demand for popular dishes was great, and she hopes to participate in other exhibitions in the future. For her part, Laila Ahmed Al Hammadi from the Family Affairs Department of the Training Department said that the department consists of a group of 5 trainers, each of whom works on training in a specific craft, whether handwork, sewing, crochet, beads, children's hats, crowns and children's clothing. She pointed out that the demand for exhibitions is good and is improving year after year.

Mashael Muhammad Al-Kuwari said that it is the first time that she has participated in the exhibition, and through her new project, she presents the design of abayas, and confirmed that she took this step after continuous encouragement and support from family and friends. She indicated that she started designing after discovering her talent, as she was designing gowns for herself and her sisters in the beginning, and developed her talent through training courses through which she learned to draw. Al-Kuwari expressed her desire to establish a workshop in the future in order to realize her dream of design.

Maryam Al-Dosari, owner of the Needle Art project, said that the project takes care of the modern family and suffices its needs, stressing that needle art is a project characterized by the art of embroidery, pointing out that this participation was not the first, as the workshop had many previous participations that were very popular. It is noteworthy that this event is held within the framework of the keenness to achieve the Ministry’s vision towards directing the efforts of institutions concerned with women and the family economically, encouraging them to be self-reliant, developing and implementing projects to support and develop productive families through training and providing assistance services, and providing areas for marketing the products of productive families programs.