Photo: USAID/ADP-E/DAI
23,000 chicks hatched in December, laying the foundation for a poultry industry revival in eastern Afghanistan.
Photo: USAID
Packing pomegranates in Kandahar
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
An Afghan farmer works in the olive fields of Nangarhar.
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
Widows in Adraskan, Herat voted to form an association to produce and market traditional wool carpets in a USAID funded project.
Photo: Kim Kim Yee: USAID/Afghanistan
Members of the silkworm production display their silk-embroidered products.
Photo: Jeremy Foster RAMP/Afghanistan
Noria Sedequi supervises 25 women working in the Vegetable Dehydrates Factory.
Photo: Photo: Alejandro Chicheri
Afghan women prepare flatbreads at a bakery.
Photo: USAID/Jennifer Lindsey
"Thank you to everybody who helped to build our road. It is very good. What used to take one hour to drive, now takes only 10 minutes. Before, it was so bumpy and dusty. And we used to travel at 30 km/hour, at most. Now we can go up to 110 km. /hour. This is very good for my business.” - Noor Rahman, Taxi Driver, Wardak Province
Photo: Matt Herrick
You see my own equipment, except the new loom, is over 30 years old. If I weave a patu for the market, I will do it all in one day. But if I make a patu for the village, for a wedding or celebration, then two days. It is a beautiful gift for the wedding. They know what I do here, because I always weave the patu. Ask if I am good? -Aliachmad, 70- years-old, works behind his patu loom in the hills of the Shamali Plains.
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
At the Mazari Sharif International AgFair, an Afghan woman demonstrates her carpet weaving skills. USAID supports carpet weaving training and carpet branding programs to help women carpet weavers improve their craft and sales opportunities.
Photo: USAID/ASMED/DAI
Domotex carpet trade show, Hanover, Germany.
Photo: USAID/ASMED
Religious leaders sign letters confirming that financial services are legitimate and Sharia compliant.
Photo: USAID
Afghan carpets displayed at trade show in Las Vegas
Photo: USAID/ASMED/DAI
Afghan traders generated more than $5.2 million in export deals at the Domotex Carpet Trade show recently held in Germany.
Photo: USAID/LTERA/Emerging Markets Group
A customer with a copy of his digitized title deed.
Photo: USAID/ARIES/AED
The Surat Zadah Flour Mill in Balkh province will generate 160 employment opportunities due to a $500,000 loan from the USAID-assisted Afghanistan Rural Finance Center
Photo: USAID/Bearing Point
Border Facility in December, 2007
Photo: USAID/Bearing Point
Border facility in December 2005
Photo: USAID/ADP-E/DAI
Training at the Kunar Directorate of Agriculture for new text message system distribution market price information.
Photo: USAID
Religious leaders sign letters confirming that financial services are legitimate and Sharia compliant.
Photo: USAID
The UN World Food Programme helps Kabul residents.
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
Work commences on an industrial park.
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
At a job fair held at the Afghanistan Technical Vocational Institute (ATVI), graduating students complete employment applications. ATVI prepares its students for employment in key sectors including horticulture, construction, information and communications technology (ICT), and vehicle maintenance.
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
Afghan entrepreneurs open new shops with the help of FINCA loans.
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
Dr. Jatinder Cheema congratulates a graduate of the Afghan Vocational Training Institute on May 15, 2008.
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
A construction worker at the Sabawoon Feed Mill.
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
Fourteen community leaders discussed their role in the development of Uruzgan province.
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
The Takhan Women’s Handicrafts Skills Association displaying their products.
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
Officials at the Grand Opening Ceremony for the Kunar Islamic Investment and Finance Cooperative (IIFC).
Photo: AUAF/Afghanistan
Ribbon cutting ceremony at The American University of Afghanistan's Bernice Nachman Marlowe Library.
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
Women's associations displayed their products at the International Carpet Fair.
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
Workers producing salt at the Omid Kabul Company. The new loan will create new jobs and expand their services across thecountry.
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
Students learned new mapping and information management skills.
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
A carpet in process as part of a carpet weaving and business skills training in Baghlan province.
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
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Photo: USAID/ASMED
Haji Nabi of Zinnat Carpet accepts the award for Best Modern Design at Domotex Hanover.
Photo: USAID/LTERA
Mrs. Semeen, a longtime resident of District # 7 in Kabul City sits on the
community council and is the Director of the Women’s Center: “Because of this USAID program, people are hopeful and satisfied that this community will become a formal part of the city.”
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
Reporters from Tolo TV filming a documentary on how to use the new directory.
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
An intern graduates from USAID’s program at Kabul University.
Photo: USAID/ASMED
Afghan delegation at Domotex 2009.
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
IIFC clients purchasing tractor plows for their fields in Kandahar.
Photo: USAID/LTERA
Buyer’s representative signs documents to privatize Hayratan Technical Services.
Photo: USAID/ASMED
The Afghan Women’s Business Federation’s first annual conference was held on February 25, 2009.
Photo: USAID/ASMED
The Afghan Marble Conference attracted 120 producers, association members, government officials, and diplomats.
Photo: USAID/ASMED
During the filming of Dream and Achieve, contestants present their business plans to a panel of judges.
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
Aimal, a student in the BBA program, conducts research for his marketing class.
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
USAID conducts many types of vocational training – such as courses in vehicle maintenance, masonry, and carpentry – to provide Afghan citizens with the skills needed to obtain stable jobs. These men are now equipped to work as car mechanics.
Photo: USAID/ASMED
A new traffic circle in Farah City.
Photo: USAID/BearingPoint/MCIT
Dignitaries including Minister of Communications and Information Technology Sangin (cutting the ribbon) and the Governor of Takhar presided over the inauguration of the new center.
Photo: USAID/ARIES
New women members of the Nangarhar Islamic Investment and Finance Cooperative.
Photo: USAID/ASMED
The Afghan Craft Cut and Wash Facility allows all steps of the carpet weaving process to occur in Afghanistan.
Photo: USAID/ASMED
Gemologists learn to identify real and synthetic gemstones.
Photo: USAID/Amy Koler
Women entrepreneurs enjoyed brisk sales at the AWBF Spring Expo.
Photo: USAID/Sarah Siegel
Nangarhar Beekeepers Association Manager Manzoor Ahmad proudly displays honey processed in Afghanistan.
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
Former Deputy Mission Director Chuck Drilling hands a laptop to an Afghan student.
Photo: USAID/Katya Sienkiewicz
Dr. Jalil Shams, Minister of Economy (left); Prince Mostapha Zaher, General Director of the National Environmental Protection Agency (center); and Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, Minister of Finance (right) exchange the CAWSS transfer memorandum.
Photo: USAID/Afghanistan
The computerized business registration system in use at the Jalalabad branch of the Afghanistan Central Business Registry.
Photo: USAID/ARIES
An IIFC member receives medical services.
Photo: USAID/ASMED
The Afghan delegation at the Tajikistan Development Exposition.
Photo: AED/Fiona Shukri
Participants demonstrate a mobile banking funds transfer as Central Bank Governor Abdul Qadeer Fitrat observes.
Photo: USAID/World Council of Credit Unions
A team of volleyball players that received assistance from the Samangan IIFC.
Photo: USAID/ASMED
Equipment used for potato chip production at A Sail Food Products.
Photo: Tolo TV
A Dream and Achieve contestant.
Photo: USAID/Deloitte MCIT
Mobile phone tower in Chamkani.
Photo: U.S. Embassy/Kabul
From left to right, Ambassador E. Anthony Wayne, Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul; Khan Jan Alekozay, Deputy Chairman of ACCI; Afghan Minister of Commerce and Industry Wahidullah Shahrani; William M. Frej, Mission Director for USAID Afghanistan; and Balkh Governor Atta Mohammad Noor cut the ribbon on the new Mazari Sharif branch of the Afghanistan Central Business Registry.
Photo: USAID/ASMED
Box factory employees make cardboard sheets during the box-production process.
Photo: USAID/ASMED
The director of the Cotton Seller’s Association cuts the ribbon at the Cotton Pressing and Recycling Factory’s inaugural event.
Photo: USAID/ASMED
The agreement with the Ministry of Mines was announced at a Nuristani Gemstone Association general assembly meeting.
Photo: USAID/ASMED
Afghanistan contains sizable deposits of gemstones, including emeralds.
Photo: USAID/ASMED
The Nangarhar Seed Producer and Wholesaler Association’s new seed storage facility in Jalalabad.