Dubai expo opens window for local rural handicrafts
THE ongoing Expo 2020 Dubai has opened a lucrative window for rural Zimbabwean women and handicrafts to connect with the global market, which has a higher appetite for such products. Rural women generally constitute the majority of producers of basketry items and textile embroidery related products, with men coming in more on stone and wooden sculpturing among other traditional artefacts. These are selling like hot cakes here in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where Zimbabwe has been participating since October last year, among 191 States.-The Herald