The project included LGBTQI+ communities and allowed the preparation for a fully inclusive workplace with migrant workers and refugees (planned for the next project). warchée also built a clientele of local businesses, individuals and non-profits who now support the organization’s self-sustainability by purchasing products and services. from october 2017 until august 2020, warchée lobbied with construction companies, and with universities, in trying to adapt the work system and the workplace that results from a traditional education system without regard for any gender equity. we worked and filmed women in the field, as role models in 30 cities, to encourage women in the middle east to engage in jobs linked to the city (from crafts to architecture) which they do not do today largely for cultural reasons. this film project resulted in a short educational video. warchée’s founders and committee directors lectured on the subject in beirut, paris, melle, dubai, milan, and munich. warchée was featured in archdaily (as one of the only 6 ngos worldwide that tackles the issue of women in the construction fields) as well as in the daily star, d’a, l’orient le jour, inhabitat, revista trama, l’officiel, wa magazine and more.
