Asharqia Chamber completes the second stage of its preparation plan for «Sanaati 2017»

​Al Ataishan: The productive families sector fights unemployment and reduces demand for governmental jobs.
Al Wabel: The criteria for selecting participating families range from the quality of the product offered not having a commercial license.

          Asharqia Chamber completed the second stage of its preparations for the third edition of its annual exhibition of the productive families "Sanaati 2017", which used to be held by the Chamber  since 2015 under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Saud bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz, Dhahran International «Expo», to improve the productive families and make them an active figure within the economies of the Kingdom in general and the eastern region in particular.
For his part, Asharqia Chamber Chairman, Abdulrahman bin Saleh Al Atishan, said that Asharqia Chamber's keenness to organize the productive families exhibition for the third consecutive year within the framework of the Chamber's continuous support for projects, programs and events that are in line with national efforts to promote the sector, being a strong supporter of the national economy, pointing that the productive families sector plays a major role in fighting unemployment, and restricts the demand for governmental jobs, in addition to being an investment channel that adds value to the national economy.
Al Atishan, the Chamber's plan to promote the productive families sector, said that it is based on three main topics. The first attempts to change negative culture towards micro projects or productive families projects by intensifying lectures and awareness campaigns through various channels of communication, to present training programs for all productive families, workshops and presentation of successful international experiences, with regard to the third and final axis of the organization of specialized exhibitions for productive families, so that families will operate within an appropriate regulatory framework that enables them to present their products to the visitors.
The Chamber was represented in the Center for Community Responsibility, which has been in contact with the associations, centers and committees of the productive families, with 19 incubators who have expressed their desire to participate in the exhibition "Made in 2017," as part of the first phase of the plan to implement the exhibition in its third edition.
For his part, Secretary General of the Chamber, Abdulrahman Al Wabel, said that the Chamber will begin the completion of the exhibition "Sanaati 2017" for the productive families according to a plan divided into more than one stage, each stage has a specific goal to be accomplished. The second phase was followed by sorting and identifying each of the participating families and associations. He pointed to the multiplicity of selection criteria among the families to participate in the exhibition between the quality of the offered product and that they do not have an outlet for sale or a commercial license.
Al Wabel explained that the exhibition of the year was divided into four main sections, the first of which is a section for the families that produce their classifications, a second section for the male craftsmen, and the third is a special department for the little trader under the age of 15, after the success of the previous version, (Child Corner).
Al Wabel said that the social responsibility programs were invited to participate in the exhibition, such as the Eastern Region Council for community responsibility, the Social Development Bank, the National Program for Handicrafts and Handicrafts, as well as inviting the business sector with initiatives and community programs that serve this segment. That the third phase of the preparations for the exhibition begins to receive requests from families from outside the charitable societies to provide the opportunity for all, and then a number of training programs for the families that will participate in the exhibition to help them improve and make them skills and abilities accordance to the standard principles for sale and marketing to achieve active participation in the exhibition.