Child Labor Children Without a Childhood The number of families putting children like Mohammad and Mustafa to work is increasing across Afghanistan as poverty in the country marred by an economic crisis rises.
OneDayinAfghanistan Profitable Profession to Barely Making By Jewelry smith Humayoun Khashi has been in the business for the past 25 years. He owns a store in northeastern Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, taking care of his family through the business.
OneDayinAfghanistan Family Lives on Scraps The Gala Bacha family are farmers who work on a melon farm in southwestern Afghanistan’s Nimroz province. Droughts over the past several years have hit them hard, forcing the family to ponder over the viability of their future in this village.
OneDayinAfghanistan Brick Maker: Work or Sell Your Children Saleh Noorzai is a brick factory employee in southwestern Afghanistan’s Nimroz province who works 12 hour days just to earn a meager wage that barely keeps his family fed.
OneDayinAfghanistan Honey; There is Honey Guncha Gul Karimi is an inspiring businesswoman who started a honey production & processing factory in western Afghanistan’s Herat province 13 years ago.
OneDayinAfghanistan Contrary to Tradition, This Rancher is a Woman Karima is a hardworking Afghan woman who has spent most of her childhood and adult life tending to livestock. But she has made a business out of that skill now and takes care of her family through that.
OneDayinAfghanistan Female Baker Makes Famous Cookies Sakina Jamali is a 40 year-old baker who has been in the business of making the famous Badakhshani cookies for the past 16 years in northeastern Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province.
OneDayinAfghanistan Distillery Hopes Afghans Go Local Afghan factory producing distilled products hopes that business revitalizes throughout Afghanistan. The factory owner says support for local produce is needed for factories to stand on their feet.
Women Embroidery; the Delicate Art of Resistance Nargis Mahmoodi and her five children work every day as embroiderers to earn livelihood for their family in southwestern Afghanistan’s Nimroz province.
OneDayinAfghanistan A Farmer's Day Abdul Basir Baqizada has been a farmer since he was 15. He has provided for his family’s expenses through this trade/skill for the past 25 years.
OneDayinAfghanistan When Art is Your Only Means of Escape Mixed media artist Mohammad Rafiq Sadiq is a businessman from Afghanistan’s southwestern Nimroz province who uses art as an escape from the continuous conflict that has torn his country apart.
OneDayinAfghanistan No School for This District Chinarto, a district in Afghanistan’s Oruzgan province has no access to education and hasn't for the last four decades, according to its residents. Children here have grown up illiterate for generations.
OneDayinAfghanistan Young Carpet Weaver Makes Beautiful Designs Zaynab is an Afghan carpet weaver keeping the tradition and culture alive. She knows patterns by memory and has worked in the industry for more than six years.
OneDayinAfghanistan Blind Afghan Girl Tops Her Class Malalai has been blind since birth, is in 4th grade and tops her class. She studies in a small school in Oruzgan province, loves Pastho literature and memorizes everything she hears.
Drought Drought Hits Afghanistan’s Southwest Hard Persistent drought over the past several years in Afghanistan threatens the Khash family’s way of life, who have been farmers for most of their adult lives.
OneDayinAfghanistan Seasoned Teacher Opens School for Taliban’s Children Former Afghan teacher opens a school in his village to educate children. The village lacked access to education for years due to the continuous war in Afghanistan.
OneDayinAfghanistan Discrimination Persists Despite Prevalence of Disabled Adults Afghanistan has one of the highest rates of disability in the world. In addition to suffering from disability, Afghans with the condition have to also endure society’s lack of awareness and ridicule towards them.
Women Firoza: the Backbone of Her Family Sensational Afghan woman takes care of her family while being a mountain of support for her relatives despite life’s many challenges.
OneDayinAfghanistan Paying for University by Fixing Shoes Noorullah Ahmadi’s life as a shoe cobbler in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province may have been rough, but he has paid his family’s expenses through the business for more than two decades.
OneDayinAfghanistan Tea in Twenty, Sunshine Not Included The absence of a reliable power grid has made many Afghans, including ironsmith Najibullah Nazari improvise. Mr. Nazari makes solar cookers that can boil 2 liters of water in less than 20 minutes.
OneDayinAfghanistan Journalists Open Faizabad's First Tailoring Shop for Women As #Afghanistan’s economic situation takes a turn for the worst and jobs become scarce, women struggle to find employment that will meet their needs.
OneDayinAfghanistan Afghan Shepherd Faces Economic Collapse & Drought For this episode of One Day in Afghanistan, we have gone to the far reaches of western Afghanistan to bring you a short story about a shepherd’s life in the #Afghan countryside.
OneDayinAfghanistan Home-Based Restaurant Gives Afghan Woman Purpose and Pay Poverty was the drive for Feraiba Karimi to think creatively upon her return to #Afghanistan from neighboring Iran last year. Ms. Karimi now runs an affordable home-based restaurant.
OneDayinAfghanistan Childhood, Games, and Imagination at Play Safa and Marwa are inseparable siblings who often spend the entirety of their day playing together, enjoying the simplicity and innocence of their childhood years - however, they are in the minority.
OneDayinAfghanistan The Female Seamstress and Her Taliban Customers Masooma Haidari didn’t give up hope and reopened her tailoring shop 20 days after the Taliban took over Afghanistan. What she didn’t expect is to be sewing clothes for members of the Taliban who have become her primary source of revenue.
