Pakistani Vocational School Helps Afghan Women Refugees Build Businesses

Pakistani Vocational School Helps Afghan Women Refugees Build Businesses

In a small workshop in the bustling northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, a dozen Afghan women sit watching a teacher show them how to make clothes on a sewing machine. The skills center was set up last year by Peshawar resident Mahra Basheer, 37, after seeing the steady influx of people from neighboring Afghanistan where they face an economic crisis and growing restrictions on women since the Taliban took over in 2021. Trying to create optio…

Pakistani vocational school helps Afghan women refugees build businesses

By Mushtaq Ali PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - In a small workshop in the bustling northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, a dozen Afghan women sit watching a teacher show them how to make clothes on

Pakistani vocational school helps Afghan women refugees build

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: In a small workshop in the bustling northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, a dozen Afghan women sit watching a teacher show them how to make clothes on a sewing machine. The skills center was set up last year by Peshawar resident Mahra Basheer, 37, after seeing the steady influx of people from neighboring Afghanistan where they face an economic crisis and growing restrictions on women since the Taliban took over in 2021.

Pakistani vocational school helps Afghan women refugees build businesses

By Mushtaq Ali PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - In a small workshop in the bustling northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, a dozen Afghan women sit watching a teacher show them how to make clothes on a sewing machine. The skills centre was set up last year by Peshawar resident Mahra Basheer, 37, after seeing the steady influx of people from neighbouring Afghanistan where they face an economic crisis and growing restrictions on women since th…

Pakistani vocational school helps Afghan women refugees build businesses

In a small workshop in the bustling northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, a dozen Afghan refugee women sit watching a teacher show them how to make clothes on a sewing machine. Watch ARY News live on live.arynews.tv  The skills centre was set up last year by Peshawar resident Mahra Basheer, 37, after seeing the steady influx of people from neighbouring Afghanistan where they face an economic crisis and growing restrictions on women since the …