Skill Development Centers
Mogh Limited has established 20 Skill Development Centers to revive the ancient arts of Chitral and provide sustenance to the artisans. Sixteen of these Centers are completely functional while four have been tested, but are currently not engaged for production. Out of these 20 Centers, 14 are specifically for embroidery work while 6 are for crochet and hand-knitting.
Looptex has helped Mogh by designing products around these activities so that Mogh Limited can continue to operate profitably and maintain its foundation simultaneously. A steadily increasing quantity of embroidery products provided by Looptex will keep the artisans occupied, as well as supplement their incomes. The Skill Development Centers have been established for those who want to come and work there. The Centers give the women a place to interact with each other, discuss designs and patterns, initiate new ideas, and learn new skills which enrich their learned traditions. Women can also come to get raw material from the supervisor and return with finished product for quality checks, or delivery if they so desire. The minimum distance between the Mogh Limited office and any given Center is 1 km while there are some Centers which are more than 20 km away from the office.
Apart from these Centers, there are more than 10 skilled artisan groups which have applied to Mogh for help in establishing embroidery centers for them. These types of centers are normally based at the house of the supervisor. This experienced supervisor holds some stock of the raw material and allocates a separate room for the women who come there to understand the work, and to learn some new skills. There are around 40-70 women in average attached with these centers. Mogh Limited also distributes work to those women who cannot come to either kind of centers, thus providing as many women as possible with the opportunity to support themselves and their families.
In the Embroidery sector, there are approximately 2000 skilled artisans known to Mogh Limited. Mogh has been able to engage around 1000 of them with occasional orders from clients. Mogh is continuously seeking out more women to join their rapidly growing company, and expand their trade and industry, develop their skills and enrich their culture and traditions at the same time.
