Zainab Ferozi, facing hardship among Afghan women after the Taliban takeover, invested her savings to launch a carpet weaving business in Herat. Two and a half years later, her enterprise employs a dozen women who lost jobs or education opportunities due to the Taliban's restrictions. Ferozi's business not only provides income but also covers her family's expenses.
Afghan women sew clothes at a handicraft workshop in Kabul November 10, 2024. — AFP picRM10 bonusKABUL, Nov 24 — When Zainab Ferozi saw Afghan women struggling to feed their families after Taliban authorities took power, she took matters into her own hands and poured her savings into starting a business.
Before the Taliban takeover, women made up 26 per cent of public sector workers, a figure that “has effectively decreased to zero”, according to UN Women. Half a dozen of her employees, wearing long white coats, were busy jarring jams and pickles labelled “Mom’s delicious homecooking”. After 40 years of successive conflicts, many Afghan women have been widowed and lost many male relatives.
Khadija Mohammadi, who launched her eponymous brand in 2022 after she lost her private school teaching job, now employs more than 200 women sewing dresses and weaving carpets. Qamar Qasimi, who lost her job as a beautician after the Taliban authorities banned beauty salons in 2023, said that even with her salary she and her husband struggle to pay rent and feed their family of eight.
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