In Baghlan province, the Kator Foundation has launched a tailoring and sewing vocational training program for local women. Participants learn cutting, stitching, garment construction, and the basics of running a small home-based tailoring business — practical skills they can use to earn an income from inside their own homes.
For women in northern Afghanistan, opportunities to earn a living are extremely limited. A sewing machine and the skills to use it can change a household’s entire situation. The women in our program are now able to take in tailoring work from their neighbors, mend and make clothing for their own families, and contribute real income that goes directly toward food, school supplies, and medicine for their children.
This program would not exist without the support of our donors. Every machine, every length of fabric, every hour of training was made possible by people who believed that investing in women’s skills is one of the most powerful things you can do for a community.
When you teach a woman a trade, you do not just change her life. You change the lives of her children, her household, and often her whole street. That is the kind of quiet, lasting impact we are most proud of.