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The Rural Women's Product Development and Marketing Venture (RDLN) helps develop and promote a line of rural women's goods, especially crafts and items made from locally grown food. This project focuses on areas that are historically oppressed. For a number of women involved, economic difficulties have been compounded by health problems, disability, accidents and other catastrophes. The Rural Women's Product Development and Marketing Venture has four collaborating groups: Artes del Valle, in Colorado, the Freedom Quilting Bee in Alabama, Mujeres Unidas in New Mexico, and the Native Women's Cooperative in Oklahoma. They create and sell products such as woven purses, quilts, scented soaps, jewelry, and baskets. Through the cooperative, these women intend to gain income and self-reliance for their families and enhance the quality of life in their communities. The photo shows the co-directors of the Native Women's Cooperative Project in Oklahoma, Evelyn Conley and Julie Moss.
Source: www.ruraldevelopment.org
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