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JulIn Afghanistan, the restrictions on women’s movement and their ability to work, combined with natural disasters and the breakdown of the banking system, has pushed millions of Afghans into food insecurity.
Shaima, from northeastern Afghanistan, is just one of the thousands of women who we have equipped to start their own small business, based at home. Shaima, like her friends and neighbours, used to rely on occasional work in the fields to help support the family. But, paid partly in cash and partly in wheat and vegetables, there was never enough to pay for food and rent, orthe medication Shaima so desperately needed for her depression and anxiety.
Today, thanks to Hand in Hand’s business training programme, Shaima is running a successful beekeeping business from her back garden.
Sweet success
Shaima’s first 5kg of honey sold for some US $12 per kilo, which not only paid for her medication but has given her hope. Shaima explains:
“Before, I was losing hope and motivation to work because I was suffering from depression and life was hard… Now, I realised I could be someone who helps her family and her community…And I can feel like that even as someone who had once experienced depression and thought life was a waste.”
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