Ancient Bazaar, New Shopkeeper

Written by: Aqsa Sediqi

Those who want to start a new business are afraid of failing and lost in the field but some others have started their businesses and they are successful too.

AEPO’s writer/producer has talked to a girl, Sawiya who has a shop in Charikar city, Parwan province.

Sawiya talks about her business, “I saw that women were facing problems in purchasing their needed goods from men shopkeepers and I decided to solve this problems. I opened cosmetics shops and other important goods for women. I spent about 3 hundred thousand Afghanis in my shop and my mother help me in the supplying of the shop. I had no customers at the beginning but now I have more customers and all of them are women and girls. My daily sail reaches to 1500-5000 Afghanis and I pay 6 thousand Afghanis my university fee and 6000 Afghanis my shop rent monthly from the benefit of my shop.”

A specific Time for Sail:

AEPO’s writer/producer has talked to Ghulam Ghaus, a resident of Kabul city who sells food in a specific time.

Ghulam Ghaus says, “I deliver different varieties of food like Biriyani, kabab, burger, macaroni, and Manto to some office employees.  I started my work in a restaurant about 2 years ago but as I had not enough customers then I started to deliver food to some offices and a bank where there are no shops and restaurants near them. I have 3 other employees into my restaurant. We start cooking foods at about 6:30 am in our restaurant and then we pack them in disposable dishes and then we deliver them to our customers at11:30 am. We get 15 Afghanis benefits from each dish. We have a 50% sale in our restaurant and 50% sale in the area.”