AZLAG Dagger Cooperative Now Trains Girls in Centuries Old Local Craft

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AZLAG Dagger Cooperative Now Trains Girls in Centuries Old Local Craft

By Cheri Varnadoe

As part of our exposure to the many faces of sustainability, the ASU Sustainability Across Morocco Study Abroad group visited the AZLAG Dagger Cooperative in the village of Kelaat M´Gouna, Morocco. Our professor learned of this cooperative through an ASU Global Technology & Development alumnus who had worked with the dagger cooperative during his time in the Peace Corp in Morocco. The alumnus did a project on how social media could help the cooperative increase their business. At his suggestion, the president of the cooperative traveled to Arizona for the Tucson Minerals and Gem Show. Our professor, who had met the coop’s director when she took the 2013 Morocco Study Abroad group to visit the cooperative, was now able to return the favor by translating for him at the Gem Show. This was just one of many examples of the global interconnectedness of the ASU network, which enabled our group to have such an immersive experience.

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