Disability Disability, Afghanistan’s Hidden Scourge The lack of government resources for disabled Afghans has left this marginalized group to fend for themselves, while the discrimination, humiliation and disrespect they face on a daily basis just adds salt to their wounds.
OneDayinAfghanistan Profitable Profession to Barely Making By Jewelry smith Humayoun Khashi has been in the business for the past 25 years. He owns a store in northeastern Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, taking care of his family through the business.
Economy Even Dung Must be Saved Women in northeastern Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province earns a living by making dung cakes from cow excrement. Dung cakes are used as a fuel to heat up homes during winter.
OneDayinAfghanistan Family Lives on Scraps The Gala Bacha family are farmers who work on a melon farm in southwestern Afghanistan’s Nimroz province. Droughts over the past several years have hit them hard, forcing the family to ponder over the viability of their future in this village.
OneDayinAfghanistan Female Baker Makes Famous Cookies Sakina Jamali is a 40 year-old baker who has been in the business of making the famous Badakhshani cookies for the past 16 years in northeastern Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province.
Women Entire Villages Illuminated Thanks to Female Traders written by Alain Majesté Barenga NYARUMURI, BURUNDI–Along Burundi’s borders with Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo poverty and unemployment are rampant. Sixty percent of the population are unemployed and most of the population live on less than 300 dollars per year. Despite the circumstances in these villages,
OneDayinAfghanistan Distillery Hopes Afghans Go Local Afghan factory producing distilled products hopes that business revitalizes throughout Afghanistan. The factory owner says support for local produce is needed for factories to stand on their feet.
Natural Disaster Families Across Afghanistan Respond to Floods Recent devastating floods across several Afghan provinces left a trail of destruction in its wake, and scores of Afghans homeless.
Nature Going Green and One With Nature Hassan Qasemi has been a hard working florist and gardener half his life. He now owns a greenhouse and sells 30 types of flowers in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul.
OneDayinAfghanistan A Farmer's Day Abdul Basir Baqizada has been a farmer since he was 15. He has provided for his family’s expenses through this trade/skill for the past 25 years.
OneDayinAfghanistan When Art is Your Only Means of Escape Mixed media artist Mohammad Rafiq Sadiq is a businessman from Afghanistan’s southwestern Nimroz province who uses art as an escape from the continuous conflict that has torn his country apart.
Economy Worn Out Currency; Another Problem Afghans Have to Face Doing everyday business is becoming harder for cash-strapped Afghans in Afghanistan’s western Herat as the number of worn-out, over-used bills increase daily.
Drought Drought Hits Afghanistan’s Southwest Hard Persistent drought over the past several years in Afghanistan threatens the Khash family’s way of life, who have been farmers for most of their adult lives.
Women Factory Employing Women Makes 5,000 Breads a Day Around 50 women work at a bakery in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province producing around 5,000 homemade bread a day.
Women Firoza: the Backbone of Her Family Sensational Afghan woman takes care of her family while being a mountain of support for her relatives despite life’s many challenges.
Economy Taliban Apply New Fees for Roadside Stalls in Kabul Street merchants in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul lament the Taliban’s new rule; the mandatory purchase of municipality-made carts and monthly rent, which the merchants say is difficult to pay considering the country’s current economic crisis.
Economy Potter Carries on Family Business A potter in Afghanistan’s eastern Laghman province makes a living from the business that has been in the family for the past seven decades.
OneDayinAfghanistan Paying for University by Fixing Shoes Noorullah Ahmadi’s life as a shoe cobbler in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province may have been rough, but he has paid his family’s expenses through the business for more than two decades.
Women Kandahari Women: No to Forced Hijab Afghan women in southern Kandahar want the Taliban to recognize and understand that Hijab, which has been part of the Afghan culture & Islamic rule for centuries, is not more important than preventing millions of Afghans from dying of starvation.
OneDayinAfghanistan Tea in Twenty, Sunshine Not Included The absence of a reliable power grid has made many Afghans, including ironsmith Najibullah Nazari improvise. Mr. Nazari makes solar cookers that can boil 2 liters of water in less than 20 minutes.
Women Female Business Owners Concerned About Future Afghan female business owners face increasing concerns over the future of their trade under new Taliban rule as a host of challenges - including government sanctions, and economic collapse - fuel staggering unemployment rates and rattle Afghanistan.
OneDayinAfghanistan Afghan Shepherd Faces Economic Collapse & Drought For this episode of One Day in Afghanistan, we have gone to the far reaches of western Afghanistan to bring you a short story about a shepherd’s life in the #Afghan countryside.
Economy Herat Industries in Nine Month Freefall The Herat industrial town in Afghanistan lost a significant portion of its factories following the Taliban takeover of the country in mid-August of last year.
OneDayinAfghanistan The Female Seamstress and Her Taliban Customers Masooma Haidari didn’t give up hope and reopened her tailoring shop 20 days after the Taliban took over Afghanistan. What she didn’t expect is to be sewing clothes for members of the Taliban who have become her primary source of revenue.
Economy Afghans Frustrated by Ramadan Price Increases Afghans across the country feel increasingly frustrated due to increase in prices of daily goods during the month of Ramadan across the country.
