Queen Noor meets with the local farmers and villagers at Deir Alla in the Jordan Valley, where the Noor Al Hussein Foundation (NHF) has finalized plans for the establishment of income-generating activities for the community, with special emphasis on women, in the form of cottage industries such as goat, cow and poultry raising, dairy farms, handicrafts and vocational training, within the framework of the NHF's Quality of Life Project.

Queen Noor meets with one of the rural women at Deir Alla, where the Noor Al Hussein Foundation plans to establish income-generating activities for the community.

The Villagers of Mukheibeh and Queen Noor dancing the traditional "dabkah".

The Noor Al Hussein Foundation has established a Quality of Life Project at Mukheibeh village, which includes a basket weaving and furniture production center as well as bee-keeping, citrus fruit cultivation and organic soil production projects.

Queen Noor opened Jordan River Designs' (JRD) annual fall exhibition entitled "Khawater" ("Thoughts") at JRD's showroom located in a renovated 1930's stone house in Amman.

Jordan River Design, which was established by the Save the Children Fund in cooperation with the Noor Al Hussein Foundation in 1987, was transferred to the Jordan River for Development Projects (JRDP), a non-profit volunteer organization under the presidency of HM Queen Rania Abdullah (standing next to Queen Noor and wearing a navy blue suit).  Queen Rania is married to King Abdullah II of Jordan.