Manufacturing Medical Equipment

  Written by: Yama Rahi

In recent years, a large number of Afghans have migrated to different countries. Those who had the opportunity to work, have learned some skills and when they returned to their homeland, they started to get the benefit of their skills.

AEPO’s writer/producer has talked to Feroz Ghafory, a resident of Kabul city.

Ghafory says: “I was working in a factory in one of our neighboring countries. They were producing different varieties of skeleton, home decoration items and others. I learn these skills from them and when I returned to my country, I started my own work and I opened a factory 8 years ago.

Now I produce the mentioned items here in my factory. I teach these skills to some other people who are working with me. My monthly income reaches about 50-80 thousand Afghanis. My customers are the students of the faculties of medicines; families and some stores and shopkeepers.”

Taking benefit of the workforce of others:

Some women find a way to get more benefit from their economic activities.

AEPO’s writer/producer had a trip to Balkh province and there he has talked to Nazi Sharifi, a resident of Mazar-e-Sharif city.

Nazi Sharifi says about her activities: “I am one of the businesswomen who have been working in handicrafts: embroidery, sewing, weaving, and others for 8 years. We buy raw materials from the markets of Mazar-e-Sharif city. We get orders from Kabul, Bamiyan and some other cities and after preparing the orders, we send them.

I found some housewives in our village and others from other villages and they got trained, now they are self-sufficient. Some women are working in my tailoring shop and some others are preparing orders in their homes.

At the beginning, our income was lower because I worked with my three daughters and we could not process all orders, but with the existence of these women, our work has improved and now we could produce more.

I get the order and after cutting and designing, the women sew them and I pay wages to them. For example, they get 30 Afghanis for sewing a child’s waistcoat. If they could sew 10 small waistcoats, they would get 300 Afghanis wage daily. These ladies speed up our work and help us to prepare all orders on time.”