WHEN TRADITIONS OFFER LIVELIHOOD

A training project run by Yunnan Agricultural University and funded by the United Nations is using heritage to provide economic sustenance, Cheng Yuezhu and Li Yingqing report.

Dorlma, a Tibetan woman who learned weaving from her family as a teenager, is now helping her family even more, thanks to a United Nations-funded training project on producing Tibetan carpets run by Yunnan Agricultural University.

So, now, while her husband works as a day laborer, the main income of the family comes from her weaving Tibetan carpets and separately selling handmade blankets, clothes and home ornaments, something she used to do earlier.