From a single mountain workshop, a more pluralistic Afghanistan is being forged

From a single mountain workshop, a more pluralistic Afghanistan is being forged

In the far northeast of Afghanistan, among the soaring mountains of Badakhshan province, a quiet transformation is taking place. Here, in a region where history runs deep through stone and soil, the New Life Trust Organization (NLTO), named this year as a Global Pluralism Award laureate by Canada’s Global Centre for Pluralism, works to find careful, culturally rooted ways to bring women together through reviving crafts that were once a proud sym…