NELLI (Pajhwok): Mohammad Ali, a resident of Lazeer area in central Daikundi province, claims to have provided work opportunities for 150 women over the past few years.
Ali, 50, travels annually to different districts of Daikundi to sell locally-made hats. He said 150 women sew the traditional hats in the Lazeer area of Nelli, the provincial capital, and the Khshak locality of Ashtarli district and then he took them to different areas of the province for sale.
Ali said: “I have a different variety of hats. Every hat has a different price ranging from 150 afs to 250 afs. He earns 20 afs in every hat and the remaining amount go the craft women.”
He said after the takeover of the new government situation has improved and the market also improved compared to the past.
“In a half-day is sell 20 hats and earn up to 3,000 afs,” he said.
He traveled to different districts of Daikundi — Shahristan, Miramour, Kati and Nelli City.
Ali said in the past common people were his customer but in the past one-month government officials and professional people have started buying hats from him.
He said in Neili and Shahristan, he is a famous hat seller, as nobody else is doing this job.
Happy with the work he is doing, Ali stressed he was feeding his 10-member family in this way.
“I am the only breadwinner for my family. My children are studying and I have bear the burden of meeting their educational and other expenses,” he explained.
He urged people to make sure that their work brought them income, no matter how small. Even one afghani is better than being jobless, according to him.
The hats Ali sells are a traditional ones in Daikundi — not known in other provinces of the country.
Wearing this hat is popular in far-flung areas of Daikundi. But recently, this tradition has expanded to urban areas of the province as well.
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