SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): A young lady in northern Jawzjan Province, who created a tailoring workshop and provided employment for more than a hundred women, says she is looking for the expansion of her work to employ hundreds more women.
It is pertinent to mentioning that according to the Department of Commerce and Industry in two years, more than 6,000 women have been employed in the sectors of tailoring, carpet weaving, wool weaving, agriculture and livestock in the city and districts of this province.
Tamna Afshar, the founder of “Bano Tamna Afshar’s Handicrafts Workshop” told Pajhwok News Agency that she recently founded this workshop with a capital of 500,000 Afs in Shabarghan, the capital of Jawzjan province.
She said: “In this workshop, 100 women are engaged in making different types of clothes, handmade jewelry, dairy products and local food.”
She said most women working in this workshop were the bread winners for the families.
She stressed this workshop has been founded to generate jobs for unemployed women who stayed at home and promote the industrial sector of the country.
Tamana, who completed her education in economics, solved the economic problems of her twelve-person family by inventing this workshop.
Najla Ibrahimi, one of the employees hailed the creation of this workshop and said: “Since the doors of the schools are closed to girls, I came here so that I could learn skill and have and be able to have an income.”
Mahboba Rasa, another girl who worked in this workshop, said: “I am happy that the earning from this job helped me and my family.”
Before regime change, she studied in class 10th, said: “In the current conditions, the creation of these workshops is the strength of the girls who have left school.”
Asuda, one of the teachers at the workshop, was happy about an employment opportunity that she is having. She said she could teach other girls the skills that she has.
She said: “I am very happy and satisfied with my work because I am contributing to the economy by working in this workshop, because in this way I can provide bread and clothes for my children.”
Naqibullah Sadaat, a senior official of the provincial Commerce and Industry Department welcomed the creation of such workshops for women.
He says that during the last two years, more than 6,000 women have been employed in tailoring, carpet weaving, wool weaving, agriculture and livestock in the city and districts of this province.
He added, they were exploring markets for the handicrafts and similar products produced by women.
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