Alokozay handicrafts won the Daring Women in Business Prize
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It is a company born in 2014 that manufactures traditional clothes with modern techniques and exports them both to the United States and Asia.
He does professional training and employs many women.
With a large majority, the jury awarded the entrepreneur Laila Alokozay, owner of the company, the prize created in response to the economic recession that is hitting the country.
According to official data, in fact, in the last four months, 100% of the activities owned by women have been interrupted due to the pandemic and half of these activities are no longer operational.
For this Nove Onlus, the association known for having given life to the Pink Shuttle which in Kabul helps women to move around the city safely, has created the Daring Women in Business Prize, which has met with great interest in Afghan society.
After evaluating dozens of projects, the two juries - the Italian and the Afghan one of Daring Women in Business - gathered at the Shahrara Garden in Kabul to award the $ 4,000 prize to the winning project, which turned out to be the one presented by Alokozay handicrafts .
The Italian jury, - composed of Arianna Alessi, vice president of Only The Brave Foundation;
Stefano Palumbo, director of the Nando and Elsa Peretti Foundation;
Filippo Vettorato representing Anna Fasano, president of Banca Etica - connected online with the Afghan jury, composed of Farida Mashal Quraishi, director of the Department of Women's Affairs in Kabul;
Sweeta Raheel Tashqurghany, entrepreneur;
Shamila Mashal Beigi, company manager;
Maryam Azizi, entrepreneur;
Ghulam Muhaiuddin, Deputy Branch Manager of Mutahid Bank.
The following participated in the proclamation of the winning project: Nove Onlus, offices in Rome and Kabul;
ministry of Women's Affairs;
Departments of Women Affairs in Kabul, partner of the Daring Women in Business Prize.
'With this initiative of Nove Onlus, thanks to the collaboration of Only The Brave Foundation, Nando and Elsa Peretti Foundation and Banca Etica - reads a note - we intend to send a strong signal: there is no development, there is no well-being , there is no recovery without women, their rights, their skills, the recognition of their role in society '.
