Thursday, June 7, 2012
A virtual e-business developed by high school students for a school project has not only become a real business, but is also making money for a mountain Bedouin community. The venture for the students of the Pilot School of the University of Macedonia began back in February 2010, when, while on a school trip in Egypt, they visited St. Catherine Monastery on Mount Sinai and local Bedouin communities.
On their return to Thessaloniki, sixteen students decided to actively help promote the Bedouin traditional art and created a virtual e-shop to sell its products. Their Fair Trade business, called OASIS -Original Art Sparkling in Sinai- trades traditional fabrics, leather and other art objects they receive from the Sinai communities.
The e-shop was presented at the Virtual Business project in February 2012, in the framework of the "Virtual Business" project for high school students and has since then produced more than €1,000 in profit, benefitting the Sinai Bedouin communities.
