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India teaches Afghan women art of making a living
Published on Tue, May 20, 2008 at 19:31 in 
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MADE IN INDIA: Afghan women learn tailoring at a SEWA centre.
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Ahmedabad: Kubra Durrani is learning tailoring—a skill she hopes will help her back home in Afghanistan.
Durrani is among the 35 women from Kabul, who are in India as a part of efforts for the economic and social-reconstruction of war-torn Afghanistan. "We have come here so that we will learn things here and help our sisters and widows back home,” says Kubra Durrani, who is from Kabul.
The Afghani women are being trained at SEWA's Trade Facilitation Centre in Ahmedabad. They are learning everything from food processing to horticulture to forestry.
SEWA is also in the process of setting up a vocational training centre at Bagh-e-Zanana in Kabul. The women trained in Ahmedabad will train other women back in Afghanistan.
"Over the next three to five years, we will provide vocational training, market access and linkages to over 15,000 women and households," says Reema Nanavaty, Director of Economic and Rural Development, SEWA.
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