“I didn’t have that much interaction with people in Amman before coming to CRP’s Hope Workshop. I meet a lot of women here and I really enjoy working with them. . . I also benefit from making money from my projects!” — Huda, Hope Workshop Member
Hope Workshop is a craft collective that provides refugee women the space to collaborate, create, and socialize, while earning additional income for their households. Most of the women are displaced and have been forced to find new paths to provide for their families and build social connections. The Workshop provides a safe space for women to gather together, offering community and psychosocial support.
Hosted at Collateral Repair Project, the Workshop includes 60 participants, Iraqis, Syrians, and in-need Jordanians, who come from diverse religious and geographic backgrounds and span a variety of ages. The women run the workshop. This allows them to gain valuable leadership and organizational skills, while making products that they feel proud of. Our goal is for the participants to make money with dignity, providing a sense of ownership and independence. Thus, 90% of all profits from sales goes back directly to the women, while the rest funds supplies needed to run the workshop.
Hope Workshop is a productive and creative outlet, which offers participants a reason to get out of the house, a way to relieve stress, and a sense of community. At its heart, the Workshop is a place for women to gather together and socialize while they work. Every purchase of a Hope Workshop product makes a direct impact in the lives of the women.
To view more of our products, visit our Gallery.
CRP created Hope Workshop with help from Advocacy Project, learn more about them here!
Visit Hope Workshop’s Facebook Page for updates on projects!
Want to support Hope Workshop? Check out the Hope Workshop Marketplace! Or fill out our volunteer survey!
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Hope Workshop’s Impact on the Local Community
One of CRP’s core principles is to help anyone in need, regardless of nationality. Read on to learn how Hope Workshop has helped a Jordanian woman find a new hobby and a community of like-minded sisters. . .
Building Hope (Workshop) Together
Reem has been with Hope Workshop since the beginning. Though she lives far enough away that she has to take a taxi to get to CRP, she never misses a meeting.
Hope Workshop’s New Embroidery Program
On World Refugee Day last June, we raised $10,000 to expand our popular women’s craft collective, Hope Workshop. Since meeting our goal with your generous help, we’ve been able to add an embroidery program.
Raise Money for Hope Workshop This World Refugee Day
In honor of World Refugee Day today, June 20th, we are partnering with the Advocacy Project and Global Giving to raise money for the Women’s Hope Workshop.
Voices of the Hope Workshop
The Hope Workshop brings refugee women together to design and market hand-made crafts in local bazaars throughout Amman. Meet two of its members.
Hope Workshop: Meet a Member – Fakhriaya
The Hope Workshop at CRP is a women’s craft cooperative that brings refugee women together to design and market hand-made crafts in local bazaars throughout Amman.
Hope Workshop – Meet a Member: Ikhlas
Over the summer, we collaborated with the Advocacy Project to have the women create beautiful embroidered squares that depict their lives, which were then put together to produce quilts for sale and exhibition in the United States.
Hope Workshop at CRP: Meet a Member – Soltana
Over the next few weeks, we will be featuring other women who were a part of the Hope Workshop this summer. Soltana, a member from our summer cooperative, shares her story.
Hope Workshop at CRP – Meet a Member: Wa’ad
Over the next few weeks, we will be featuring other women who were a part of the Hope Workshop this summer. Roa’a, a member from our summer cooperative, shares her story.
Inshallah: A Final Dispatch
“Inshallah. Probably the singular Arabic word I hear most on a daily basis. Meaning literally, ‘if God wills it,’ the word serves as both a filler and as a daily reminder of things that are out of our control.”
Refugees’ Stories Come Alive Through Embroidery
Over the course of the past two months, the women of the Hope Workshop have been working hard to produce beautiful embroidered squares detailing stories from their lives as refugees.
Memory and Art: Hope Workshop Members Document Past Experience through Embroidery
Today the Hope Workshop met to share designs and discuss next steps for their advocacy quilting project!