Afghan female opens tailor shop in southern Kandahar to employ fellow women

STORY: Afghan female opens tailor shop in southern Kandahar to employ fellow women DATELINE: April 28, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:21 LOCATION: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE 1 (Pashto): RAZIA, Tailor shop owner 2. SOUNDBITE 2 (Pashto): RAZIA, Tailor shop owner 3. SOUNDBITE 3 (Pashto): KHADIJA, Tailor 4. SOUNDBITE 4 (Pashto): RAZIA, Tailor shop owner 5. various of the tailor shop STORYLINE: Razia, 23, runs a tailor shop in the Daman district of Kandahar in war-torn Afghanistan, where traditions usually do not encourage women to work outside their homes. Now some 50 women are working in Razia's workshop and each receives a monthly salary. SOUNDBITE 1 (Pashto): RAZIA, Tailor shop owner "I have established this workshop. Some women are working here. I am trying to develop it." Women and girls working in the workshop are engaged in embroidery, sewing traditional clothes and making burka, an envelope-like veil that covers a woman from head to toe. SOUNDBITE 2 (Pashto): RAZIA, Tailor s