RASC News Agency: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has announced that it will establish a carpet weaving and production center for women in Balkh province in the north of the country in order to support this group.
This organization said in a message published on their social networks yesterday, August 25, that they are going to build this carpet weaving and production center to support needy women.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has announced the goal of launching this support program is to create employment and financial income for poor and needy women.
According to sources, this carpet weaving and production center for women will be built in the town of Qakin Bafan in the east of the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, the center of Balkh province, where most of its people are struggling with poverty and unemployment.
It should be mentioned that in a place where the weaving center is being built, families who have returned from Iran, Pakistan and other countries live in the past years.
It is said that most of the women of this neighborhood; they have the ability and capacity to produce carpets, and they have been weaving national carpets for many years.
Earlier, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced that more than 70% of Afghanistani people are below the poverty line and life has become difficult for them.
It should be mentioned that the Taliban group once again dominated Afghanistan; Women were prohibited from working outside the home, even in the United Nations and other international organizations, which has increased poverty in the community.
