Afghan Women Earning Income through Tailoring
Jobs for Afghan Women
SummaryTeaches 30 poor Afghan women tailoring, an income-generating skill. Women are able to start home-based businesses and become self-reliant.
How Donors Like You Helped
Thanks to donors like you, a total of $2,466 was raised for this project. Other Projects Run By Creating Hope International (CHI) That You Can Help |
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Poverty remains widespread in Afghanistan’s struggling economy. Refugees returning home have found their livelihoods destroyed. Widows are especially vulnerable to unemployment and poverty. In order to help widows and other women who would like to learn a skill that they can use to support themselves and their children, CHI and its project partner began tailoring classes, which now serve over 500 women per month. These classes teach women to sew a wide variety of clothing from patterns.
Activities
Through a tailoring class in Afghanistan or in a refugee camp in Pakistan, 30 women will learn to compute their families’ budget for clothes and savings from making their own clothes. Health, peace, and women’s rights lessons are also taught.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $2,466
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $2,466 . The original project funding goal was $2,466.
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Women learn to save money they would have spent on clothes to purchase a sewing machine and start a small business. Course graduates sew their families’ clothes, start a home-based business, and/or become sewing teachers.
Project Message
In the beginning, I didn’t know anything about tailoring but now I know everything. I can sew clothes for others and earn money. I can solve our economical problems. AIL’s sewing course is the best.
- Seema, Graduating Tailoring Student
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Toc Dunlap
Executive Director
Creating Hope International
PO Box 1058
Dearborn, Michigan 48121
United States
(313) 278-5806
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Project Sponsor
Organization
Creating Hope International (CHI)
Creating Hope International PO Box 1058
Dearborn,
Michigan
48121
United States
(313) 278-5806
http://www.creatinghope.org
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Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Afghanistan
and can also be found under 
Economic Development.
For more information about Afghanistan, read the Human Development Report on Afghanistan or the Wikipedia entry for Afghanistan.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 28, 2004
