The Foundation of Girls Welfare in Makkah Al-Mukarramah held, on Monday evening, 15 Jumada Al-Awwal, 1440 A.H., in cooperation with Is`ad Endowment Institution, the "Making String Beads" course which aims at giving training to the female attendees in how to make string beads and engage in the labor market. This course was a training workshop delivered by the trainer Fardous Bal`amsh, a member of the academic staff in the Department of Family Education. In the course, she trained the girls on the techniques and ways of making handmade string beads, the different types of precious stones, pearls and beads, the tools used to make string beads, the various parts of string beads and their detailed names, the types of threads used to make them, and the methods of ornamenting beads to increase their aesthetic and material value. The attendees made many different types of beads.

At the conclusion of the course, thanks were expressed to the trainer for her efforts, under the supervision of Ms. Budour bint Hazza` Al-Rajhi Al-Shareef, Director of the Foundation of Girls Welfare in Makkah.