Afghan women set up secret businesses to escape Taliban bans

 Women in Afghanistan turn to home-based jobs and setting clandestine businesses to get around Taliban curbs on their freedom King88bet

LONDON - Five months after Taliban supporters smashed up her restoran, Afghan pengusaha Laila Haidari opened a secret craft centre where women earn a small penghasilan stitching elaborate dresses and fashioning jewellery from melted down bullet casings. king88bet login alternatif

Her workshop is among an array of underground businesses that women have launched since losing their jobs after the Taliban grabbed power in 2021, ranging from gyms to beauty salons and girls' schools. King88Bet Situs Slot Online

"I opened this centre to provide jobs for women who desperately need them," Haidari said.

"This is not a permanent solution, but at least it will help them put food on their table."

The Taliban administration, which marks two years in power on Aug. 15, has banned women from most jobs, barred girls from secondary and higher education, and imposed harsh restrictions on their freedom of movement.

But thousands of women continue to run micro-enterprises from their homes - which officials broadly allow, while others like Haidari oversee more clandestine businesses.

Haidari, 44, used to own a lively Kabul restoran that was known for its music and poetry evenings and was populer with intellectuals, writers, journalists and foreigners.

The keuntungans were ploughed into a drugs rehabilitation centre she setting nearby.

But a few days after the Taliban seized the country, gunmen and locals threw out the rehabilitation centre's patients, destroyed her restoran and looted the mebel, Haidari said.

Her handicrafts enterprise now subsidises an underground school providing 200 girls with lessons in maths, science, and English. Some attend in individu, others online.

"I don't want Afghan girls to forget their knowledge and then, in a few years, we will have another illiterate generation," she said, referring to the women and girls deprived of education during the Taliban's last rule from 1996 to 2001.