Roya says owning her own business is a great feeling, especially after all the hard work she did to achieve it. But she has never forgotten Afghanistan. She thinks especially of the women there.
“It is so tough for them to find an, just an ordinary job, just make a little bit of money. It’s hard. Especially when you’re not educated, there’s no chance.”
So a few years ago, Roya Hashimi returned to Afghanistan. She hired some women to help her with her American business. The women in Afghanistan focus on delicate details, like lace, or like the beads used for that Lebanese bride last year.
“We used more than a thousand of them on that dress.”
Roya says the women in Afghanistan use the money they earn from sewing to support their families, or to buy a cell phone, or to buy nice clothes for special occasions.
“They are going every day to weddings, the Afghan women.”
Roya says many also use the money for education. It pays for school, or for computer time to study English.
She hopes eventually to create a factory in Afghanistan and hire even more people. And she would like to pay for a girls’ school there.
“Recently one lady bought a little belt and she was telling me, this is more than a belt. This is not just a belt, this is much more than that.”
An American customer named Martha came in the shop to try on her dress. She says she loves Roya’s work.
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