Tailoring: A Small-Business Skill for Afghan Women

Summary

About 700 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. progress report read updates from the field

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	£6 - Supplies a woman with cloth and tools so she can take a six-month tailoring course, which will enable her to learn a skill and earn a living for herself and her children.
	£31 - 5 women have cloth and tools for the tailoring course.
	£55 - One woman becomes a tailor after graduating from the 6-month course.
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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, Afghan Institute of Learning began tailoring classes, which now serve over 700 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: £37,149
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £13,757
Total Funding Goal: £50,906

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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

Marketplace 2005

Organisation

Afghan Institute of Learning
Afghan Institute of Learning
c/o CHI, PO Box 1058
Dearborn, Michigan 48121
United States
(313) 278-5806
http://www.creatinghope.org/ail

Learn more about Afghan Institute of Learning and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in 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 December 22, 2011.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on September 01, 2005.

Latest Update from the Field

A Great Year for 1719 Afghan Women

By Toc Dunlap - Executive Director, Creating Hope International, December 22, 2011 12:32 AM

During 2011, 1719 women were instructed in sewing through the learning centers of the Afghan Institute of Learning. That means that 1719 women are better equipped to become independent and/or financially assist their families. Many of these women open their own businesses, while others sew from their homes and provide clothing for their own families and members of their community for a small fee. Still others go to work for large businesses that require their skill level.

Thank you to all of you who provided support for these women.

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