13. April 2010, Khandar Afghanistan

Workers learn how to embroider and make clothes for dolls, at a workshop in Kandahar run by an NGO that aims to help local women empower themselves.
The people of Afghanistan have had to deal with conflict and military occupation for much of the past 50 years. Conflict and long-term instability in Afghanistan have led to personal trauma, and severe economic and infrastructural damage. Foreign aid has helped support various initiatives to improve infrastructure and education, but as occupation forces withdraw and Western economies face their own difficulties, funds to NGOs are being cut.