How Afghan women refugees are stitching their lives back

After Razia Assa, a former schoolteacher in Afghanistan, arrived as a refugee in New Delhi with her family eight years ago, it took her a while to rebuild her life. In November 2019, she got a boost when she got a job at Silaiwali, a social enterprise in Delhi that upcycles waste fabric from garment factories to create handcrafted products for export to the United States and Europe. Her co-workers too are Afghan women refugees, most of them the sole jobholders in their families.

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