MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): A woman has hired 300 poor women in her carpet and wool weaving workshop in Mazar-i-Sharif city of northern Balkh province.
The workshop owner, Alia Makhdoom, told Pajhwok Afghan News that seven months ago, she established the workshop for weaving carpets and wool to provide employment opportunities to poor women.
She said 300 women worked in her workshop and most of them were widows, poor and displaced women.
Meanwhile, workers at the workshop say they are also happy to have been provided with a working environment.
Tajgul, a carpet weaver in the factory, expressed . . .
