They sell prepared food, buy property and rent rooms, do hairdressing, sewing and make handicrafts.
It trains women in making handicrafts and decorative items and helps to market these products.
The wood is also used as a Rattan substitute in making furniture and handicrafts.
It used the 'art-meets-craft' approach where artists made handicrafts for a living even as they pursued their art.
There is also a covered (though outdoor) line of booths that sell hand made jewelry and handicrafts.
For example, she established her own program on a farm to train women in agriculture, preparing and preserving food products and making handicrafts.
The group runs workshops where the women watch videos and then hold discussion groups and where they have been taught how to make simple handicrafts.
To help her parents feed the family when she was a child, she and her siblings used to make and sell handicrafts.
In urban areas, many slaves made handicrafts for sale, while revenues went to their masters.
It also trains people to make and sell handicrafts.