Success Stories

 PARMINA’S STORY Parmina is 28 years old, married and living in Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani village of Nahre Shahi district.  She has 4 kids, a son and three daughters. Her...

MEET FRESHTA, AN EMBROIDERESS Thanks to Hand in Hand Afghanistan and all supporters for the program, I received business service training and received support to establish embroidery enterprise. These enabled me...

 “I joined Parwana group and received poultry training, I learned how to run a poultry farm and how to contribute in family expenses through selling eggs. I also learned how...

Bas Maro, The Poultry Farmer We lived in Pakistan for more than thirty years and returned to Afghanistan around eight years ago.  We did not have anything here and didn’t...

LAILA, GIVING A HELPING HAND TO HER FATHER “We used to live in extreme poverty, my father -the only breadwinner of the family is unskilled labor, mother is housewife and...

Hand in Hand Afghanistan implements ‘Village Uplift Program’ in Shahrak Ulia village of Mazar-e-Sharif. Aqila is one of the 110 women recognized eligible and she joined the program about a...

Dur Begum, 60, a mother of four children and internally displaced person from Khost-o-Fering district, Baghlan Province.

Jan Mohammad used to work in agricultural fields as unskilled labor and help his father in feeding the family

Bakhtawar, 56 years old widow, lives in Mir Qasim Jan, a village of Chimtal district, Balkh province. She has two married daughters and one married son.

I stich women coats for a market shop and earn around AFN 10,000 per month now, my son- who is in high school and is 17 years old- has learned...

8 women have come together and established a business, creating job and generating decent income to support their families.

Noor Bibi, 47 years old, widow and mother of 6 kids, lives in a joint family with her married son in Chil Dokhtaran village of Dehdadi district. She says “we...