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20 Vulnerable Women Have Completed Tailoring Program through a Leicester based registered UK charity Helping Orphans vocational education projects which provides sustainable development for deprived families and communities.
Through this program Helping Orphans helped 20 widowed women in Kabul Afghanistan receive tailoring skills and equipment. They also received government approved 4 months learning certificates. As a result they became skilful tailors.
These skills and tailoring business equipment and verified certificates enable them to start their own business and gain a sustainable income and growth.
Each one of these women were left alone with responsibilities looking after their under 10 kids after their husbands died in war, for most of them, their husbands were serving in the pro-American Afghan National Army or ANA. Each of these women holds 1 to 6 children. They were lost how to raise these children when their husbands left them behind who were bringing food to home.
Some of them were begging in the streets along with their under 10 children and some of them have no access to enough food and clean water for days. When they attended Helping Orphans vocational program they were completely doomed and hopeless but Helping Orphans gave them hope, and help them with food packs and provide them a learning opportunity. In 4 months they learnt tailor and dress designing and now each of them sew 4 to 5 dresses per day.
Shamila a Helping Orphans tailoring trainee said, it changed her life. “She didn’t know before how to raise her son and how to achieve her son’s goals in life”, she said. “Now I know and I’m sure I can achieve his dreams and goals in life”, Shamila added.
In a ceremony where Afghan government representatives were also present the graduated ladies have been awarded the tailoring and dress designing equipment and professional certificates by Helping Orphans.
“We will still continue to support the graduated sisters to find potential market”, Abdul Fatah Taib Helping Orphans’ country director added.
Another graduated student Sita’yesh said: before she didn’t know how to sew a dress now she can sew 4 to 5 dresses daily.
Afghan government representative Safia Sediqi praised Helping Orphans for providing such a unique learning opportunity for the vulnerable women and she advised the graduated women in order to have their own sustainable business they should use the skills and the equipment appropriately:
‘‘You have given an opportunity of tailoring business within this community you can start your own business and earn something enough for yourself and your households’’, she added.
Helping Orphans will continue to support Afghan vulnerable people, orphans and widows with sustainable development projects. The charity is trying to extend its projects to 34 provinces of Afghanistan. The country remained in war during the last 4 decades and its infrastructures are completely destroyed and more than half of its populations are living under poverty.
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@HananHabibzai himself one of the war displaced could only console or offer petty cash to some needy people when he was across them as a journalist while serving in Afghanistan. Thousands of miles away, he now has set up a charity to aid some he can. Access his twitter
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Child mortality, malnutrition, forced marriages and abuses are the main problems children are facing in everyday life in Afghanistan. The child mortality rate is particularly high in Afghanistan. According to international records, life expectancy at birth is considered to be the lowest. Statistics show that 35% of newborns are underweight. Even today, 87% of deliveries take place in the pregnant mother’s home and usually with no proper medical assistance. This is so because in the highly male-controlled Afghan society women do not often get permission to leave their home, even to go to the hospital. Therefore, 1 woman out of 8 dies during delivery. A very limited number of hospitals exist in Afghanistan. Sometimes, one would have to travel across hundreds of kilometres to reach one of these hospitals. The medical officers lack proper training and appropriate equipment. Approximately 70% of the population does not have access to drinking water, which in turn results in a lot of health problems, especially among younger children.
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