Agriculture A Small Farmer with Big Dreams Pascaline Miburo only wanted to raise a family and make her parents proud. Although she has a bachelor's degree, Pascaline lives in poverty, surviving on subsistence agriculture grown on her small plot of land.
Culture Hopeless Brides and Refugee Grooms #Afghan women lament the exorbitant dowry amounts incurred after their engagement, saying “absurd” cultural norms create a variety of issues, including domestic violence and termination of their marriage.
OneDayinAfghanistan Portraits as Protest Atena Sultani is a talented artist from Herat who, through her paintings, strives to reflect the voices of girls deprived of education and women deprived of work after the fall of the previous Afghan government in August 2021.
Diary A Deep Love for Children, Crushed Couple Sara Jafari and Rasool Fallah created a daycare center aimed at providing a nurturing and loving environment for children until the rug pulled from under their feet, leaving them lost and hopeless.
Afghanistan Reading Poetry on the Longest Night Shab-e Yalda celebrates the longest night of the year, it is an important festival for Afghan, Iranian, Tajik, Kurdish, and Azeri communities, regarded as a time of blessings and the resurgence of love and the sun.
OneDayinAfghanistan Her Studio is Her Whole World Diba Naseri’s world and her place of imagination is the tiny room she spends her time painting in. She is happy when she is painting, and nothing, not even the errors and mistakes in those paintings can take her out of her happy place.
Weather Between Life and Death in Winter's Cold Afghans across the country endured an unprecedented cold snap in January that left dozens of people and thousands of livestock dead.
Culture Woman Opens First Bookstore in Badakhshan A woman in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan has opened the province’s first bookstore aiming to promote the culture of reading among the public.
OneDayinAfghanistan A Midwife with 40 Grandchildren In Badakhshan, where experience still rules over formal education, Alim Nesa has served her community as a home-based #midwife for the last 30 years.
Girls Apprenticeship Gives Afghans Hope 40-year-old Wahida Wahaj reopened a workshop that teaches girls and women embroidery, tailoring and carpet weaving in northeastern Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province.
OneDayinAfghanistan A Day with a Broom Maker Mah Sultan is a woman making the brooms in southwestern Afghanistan’s Nimroz province in order to help take care of her family. She barely makes enough from the business, but has no choice in the matter.
Women Pregnancy and its Perils Afghan women pregnant during or after the fall of Afghanistan talk about the perils of pregnancy and childbirth in a male-dominated country with low quality healthcare.
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 Honey; There is Honey Guncha Gul Karimi is an inspiring businesswoman who started a honey production & processing factory in western Afghanistan’s Herat province 13 years ago.
Women Women in Badakhshan React to New Restrictions Women and girls in Faizabad, the capital of Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province lament the latest Taliban restrictions forcing them to wear a burqa or niqab when they are out.
OneDayinAfghanistan Contrary to Tradition, This Rancher is a Woman Karima is a hardworking Afghan woman who has spent most of her childhood and adult life tending to livestock. But she has made a business out of that skill now and takes care of her family through that.
Women A Free Library for Women to Learn A female-owned library in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul recently opened its doors hoping it could provide a space for girls barred from seeking education to study there.
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,
Women Embroidery; the Delicate Art of Resistance Nargis Mahmoodi and her five children work every day as embroiderers to earn livelihood for their family in southwestern Afghanistan’s Nimroz province.
Culture Book Exhibition Revitalizes Afghans’ Hopes Female volunteers in #Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province organized a book exhibition aimed at promoting the culture of reading nearly a year after the Taliban takeover.
Women Lifting the Veil; Life for Women in Rural Afghanistan The women of Gizab, a district in Afghanistan’s central Daikundi province live a life confined to the four walls of their home while betrothed against their will for a dowry that, unless rich, cannot be paid for years.
Women Afghan Journalist Eyes Bleak Future Mushtari Mashal worked hard to get a degree in journalism, a profession she has been passionate about since childhood, but despite her hard work she is still unemployed.
OneDayinAfghanistan Young Carpet Weaver Makes Beautiful Designs Zaynab is an Afghan carpet weaver keeping the tradition and culture alive. She knows patterns by memory and has worked in the industry for more than six years.
