On International Women’s Day this year, Afghan women took a significant step. Organized by Rangina Hamidi, the director of GGP’s newest community-based partner, Kandahar Treasure, 1,500 Afghan women marched for peace in the city of Kandahar.
In 2003, Ms. Hamidi returned to her home country of Afghanistan, after having fled with her family in, 1981, to lead the Women’s Income Generation Project for Afghan’s for Civil Society (ACS), a development organization in Kandahar. Five years on, her work with ACS has grown into Kandahar Treasure, a small sustainable business with a big social impact.
~ If we don’t have this work, we don’t know what will happen to us ~This spring, GGP is featuring exquisitely hand-embroidered scarves made by the women of Kandahar Treasure. Ms. Hamidi recently met with GGP staff where she described the process of making each of these scarves and the broader social impact that Kandahar Treasure is having on the lives of women and families in Afghanistan. Visit our website to read the interview
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