The ninth World Halal Summit and tenth Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Halal Expo, the world’s largest “halal” group, held in Istanbul, continued at a brisk tempo over the weekend.
This yr’s occasions, which opened Thursday, had been attended by 500 firms from 40 international locations bringing collectively varied sectors, from meals to tourism, electronics to cosmetics, and textiles to well being.
Meanwhile, the honest additionally accommodates a particular space devoted to girls entrepreneurs. It additionally options the group of the International Chefs Championship, which noticed the participation of 1,000 cooks from 30 international locations.
According to the data offered by Aylin Şengül, the coordinator of the Halal Summit and OIC Halal Expo, there was a visual enhance within the participation of ladies entrepreneurs, producers and feminine cooks in comparison with earlier years.
Within the scope of the summit, among the many entrepreneurial and productive girls’s associations and teams from all world wide, there are a lot of associations and teams together with the Arab Women’s Union, the Palestine Shams Women and Children Association, International Women Cuisine, the Dakar Women and Village Arts Group and the Bayrampaşa Women’s Cooperative.
This yr, along with girls’s associations and teams, particular person participation within the Halal Fair can also be fairly excessive. The colourful stands of ladies from varied international locations of the Islamic world corresponding to Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Palestine, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Senegal, Yemen, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia are filled with all types of handmade, eye-catching merchandise.
Some of the most well-liked merchandise included a jasmine cream that whitens the pores and skin, produced by a producer named Fatima hailing from Tunisia, perfumes made by Senegalese girls from pure oils and roasted chickpea breads made following hundreds of years of recipes written on Hittite tablets made by chef Aylin Memik from Türkiye’s Çorum province.
One of probably the most visited locations within the girls’s market space had been the stands the place Palestinian girls exhibited their merchandise. “We are here to help people in Palestine,” stated Muna Allaham, president of Palestine Shams Women and Children Association, including that almost all of their proceeds can be despatched to Palestine.
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