Empowering women in Afghanistan

Recently, the GHNI-Afghanistan team has developed a strategy to meet one of the biggest needs of the country—to help the women. Accordingly, GHNI has decided to start several Women’s Centers. First of all, we plan to start a couple of centers in a rural region. The main purpose is to provide economic empowerment for the women. We will be providing training and opportunities to produce and sell handicrafts. However, another key is to train the women in the benefits of and how to produce a kitchen garden. This will allow the women to provide diverse vegetables for their family, cutting down on their food budgets, but also enable them to sell the extra produce to supplement their household income.  We will also promote health and education opportunities through these centers. 

Likewise in Kabul, we are partnering with some women who recently started a Women’s Center there.  In this culture, it is difficult for women to meet in public together. They can’t even have other women come to their homes. Therefore, our team has started a Women’s Center to provide not only training in handicrafts but also some counseling and free dental care. The focus of all of these centers is to provide holistic health to one of the most neglected and vulnerable populations.

The included photos reflect how the men support the opening of this center to help women in their regions - wives and daughters futures will be better and the men are excited to have this opportunity for women.  The two women are the recently hired trainers who will oversee all activities in the center.

Thank you!