Lost in land that cannot provide (Sunday, January 15th, 2006)

Published by markfromireland in Previous Site at 3:39 pm with 7 comments.

“Three sewing machines in a dingy apartment were all Munna Abdul Adeem Ahmed could scrape together when she set up a tailoring co-op for poor widows. She soon realised it was not enough.
More than 1,000 women from the northern city of Mosul turned up looking for work on the first day. Ahmed finally stopped registering […]