BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Assistance in business development: Supporting Traditional Crafts

Umurzakov Shawkat lives in Tajikistan since birth. He is engaged in trade, which is passed in their family from generation to generation, making national coffers. His great-grandfather and grandfather made wooden racks for the mosques, the father makes doors, gates.

Since 1985 himself Shawkat started making national carved chests and taught the case of his two sons and a nephew who work and help him at the time.

As a heritage from his father he got an old turning machine, which he recently brought from Uzbekistan. This turning machine is very valuable for Shawkat and he cherishes it.

Umurzakov Shawkat said: “My first credit in the amount of $ 5000 from MDO “FINCA“ Tajikistan I took in February 2011, a year after the second – in February 2012, also in the amount of $ 5,000. The first and second loans were intended for extra purchase wooden boards, tools, machines, milling machine for efficient and quality work. A craft we are engaged in a creative, interesting, but not easy. After buying wooden planks we dried them from 20 to 30 days, then they were glued together, to make a drawing, make carving figure, collect the chest, stained it, dry them and then it is ready for sale. Our chests buyers purchase largely as a gift the newlyweds, guests, relatives or his home. In the near future going to take another loan. ”

Shawkat great and happy family man with three children, two sons and a daughter. Now he building a new house for the family. In the future plans to build another house for his youngest son, a wedding of his children and buy a good and expensive car for himself. He hopes to continue his ancestral craft, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren.