Girls were dragged to a low-paid carpet after ban

Hundreds of women and girls in a seminar in a seminar on which carpets are made in a tight space, and work in the drowning work.

Among them are 19-year-old Salehe Hassani. “I don’t have a chance to learn girls already,” says with a bad smile. “The situations took it from us, so I was in the seminar.”

Since the Taliban seized the government in 2021, girls aged 12 and hindered women from education and many women.

In 2020, only 19% of women were part of the workforce – were four times less than men. This number fell below the Taliban rule.

The Taliban government, which is one of the few carpet weaving, which is a large number of carpet weaving, which is one of the carpet weaving, allows women to work.

According to the UN, about 1.2 to 1.5 million weight loss livelies depend on the carpet industry, about 90% of the women’s power.

In an economy He warned the UN 2024 report The Taliban warned the “mainly collapse” because he took power, and the carpet exports are developing.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade was exported to countries such as Pakistan, India, Austria and the United States in the first six months of 2.4 million kilograms, in the first six months of 2024.

But this does not necessarily mean better salaries for weavers. Some BBC said they did not see any of the earnings from a section sold in Kazakhstan last year.

Carpets in Afghanistan are sold less – between $ 100-150 per square meter. In order to support their families and have several options for employment, the money in need of money and workers are trucking less paid work.

Carpet weavers say they have gained about $ 27 for each square meter for each square meter. This is less than a dollar a day, despite long, heavy slides extending to 12 hours.

Elmak Baft company Nisar Ahmet Hassieni, which allows the BBC seminars to enter the seminars, said that the workers will pay between 39 and 42 dollars per square meter. He said they paid with a working day of eight hours in every two weeks.

Taliban has repeatedly said that girls will be allowed to return to school, because the concerns are resolved once as soon as it will close the curriculum with Islamic values ​​- but not specific steps to happen so far.

Mr.Sassieni, after the rise of the Taliban government, gave his mission to support the rest behind its closed.

“We set up three workshops for carpet weaving and woolen yarn.”

“About 50-60% of these rugs are exported to Pakistan, and the rest will be sent to China, Turkey, France and Russia by customer demand.”

22, 22nd Shakila, one of the rooms of the modest rent, both carpets and share with older parents and three brothers. They live in the poor Dont-e barchi area on the western edge of Kabul.

Once he dreamed of becoming a lawyer, but now he carries a carpet weaving operation.

“We couldn’t do anything else,” Shakila tells me. “It was not in another workplace.”

He explains how his father taught him his tissue while he was 10 years old and healed from a car accident.

The thing that started as a proper skill in the HardSip periods has now become a family line of life.

Shakila’s sister Samira, 18, wanted to be a journalist. 13, 13, even forced to stop going to school before I beg to dream of a career.

Before the return of the Taliban, all three were students in the High School of Shuhada.

After the deadly bombs in the school in 2021, he was forever changed and 90 deaths, mainly young girls and about 300 people were injured.

The previous government accused the Taliban, despite his denial of any participation of the group.

He was afraid of another tragedy and his fathers decided to take them out of school.

Samira, who was at the school where the attacks took place, spoke to a var and struggled to express himself. Again, he says he will do anything to return to official education.

“I really wanted to finish my work,” he says. “Now the Taliban is in power, the security situation has improved and the suicide bomb has been less.

“But schools are still closed. So we have to work.”

Despite low-paid and long-hour work, these women are unbelievable.

One of the seminars, for sale, determined and hopeful, studied English in English last three years.

“Although schools and universities are closed, we refuse to stop our education.”

One day, Salehe, he plans to be a leading doctor and build the best hospital in Afghanistan.