Tailoring: A Small-Business Skill for Afghan Women
Small-Business for Afghan women
Summary
About 500 women each month learn tailoring and how to run a small tailoring business from their homes. Women enter the 6-month course not knowing how to thread a needle; they leave with a livelihood.
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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
During the 6-month tailoring course, women learn to compute their budget for clothes and savings from making their own clothes. They learn to make a variety of clothes from patterns. Health, peace, and women’s rights lessons are also taught.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $12,436
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $87,564
Total Funding Goal: $100,000
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This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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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
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Toc Dunlap
Executive Director
Creating Hope International
PO Box 1058
Dearborn, Michigan 48121
United States
(313) 278-5806
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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
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Afghanistan
and can also be found under 
Microfinance.
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 10, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on September 1, 2005
Latest Update from the Field
A Special Giving Opportunity.....
By Sondra Johnson - Newly Trained Afghan Tailors Thank You, November 10, 2009 03:46 PM
We wanted to share with you a very special opportunity to give more than 100% from November 10 through December 1st. Please share this with those you know who care. During this time, we are privileged to receive additional matching funds from your donation through Global Giving of at least 30%. The need is still great. Afghanistan struggles to become a country of strength and stability.
Sara is 19, and shares the following: “I am studying tailoring for about six months in this center. Before I came here, I couldn’t even sew any clothes, but now I am so happy that I can sew dresses and I have learned many things from this course. I think it’s good every girl must know tailoring, so after consulting with my family I came to this center. Now I can sew dresses well, and I hope after graduation I can earn an income from tailoring so that I can help with my family.”
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