Situated about seven kilometers to the east of Vientiane’s city center in the Houey Hong Village of Chanthabury District, in Laos, the Houey Hong Vocational Training Centre for Women provides professional training and employment for Lao women not having advantaged backgrounds in the regions of natural dyeing, authentic Lao weaving, tailoring and petit business administration. Travel Indochina Laos
Houey Hong Vocational Training Centre for Women
Established with the aim of promoting the public awareness of the necessity to offer professional training and employment opportunities to the disadvantaged areas of the community, especially women, minority ethnic minorities and the disabled people, the Houey Hong Vocational Training Centre for Woman has three principal objectives including offering professional training for several skill levels, in weaving, dyeing and tailoring for women in rural areas who have poor or disadvantaged conditions, restoring and promoting the Lao’s traditional crafts, such as natural dyeing and traditional weaving, teaching women who lacks education the other popular skills including tailoring. Laos travel packages
People paying a visit to the Centre can have a good chance to learn about the Lao natural way of dyeing and traditional way Lao weave. You can also show your support to the Centre by buying local products made from silk and cotton by the local women at Houey Hong Our Products.
Dying silks
Established in 1998 by Japanese-educated Chanthasone Inthavong, the center offers short term classes in weaving, dyeing, sewing techniques and petty business administration. Coming with the job placement program, it wishes to help to bring relative income for people having unfavorable circumstances.
The discursive nature of its budget indicates that the centre has to support itself and selling crafts made on the preambles and offering tailoring services is one of many activities they can do to make their intentions come true. Visitors can also enjoy the half or full-day workshops offered to know how to create the craft of Laotian weaving. This contains of designing patterns, tying thread, dyeing with the use of natural color, and trying loom weaving.
Dying scarf
Visitors can pay 120,000K for two hours taking part in the dyeing process to make two shawls or 200,000K for whole day in weaving process. You will enjoy the end results after all your efforts. To reach this center, you have to pay for an additional 33,000K for transportation to and from the centre provided.
A trip to the wonderful Houey Hong Vocational Training Center for Women is one of the most popular activities in Laos in recent years for female tourists. Coming to the Houey Hong Centre, they will not only be casual observers, but they also have a chance to partake in half- or full-day classes where they are taught many techniques including from tie-dyeing silks to traditional Lao weaving with the using of a loom.
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