14Oct
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Women Business Prize Afghanistan

The Women Business Prize is a competition dedicated to all Afghan female entrepreneurs who wish to start a business or consolidate their existing enterprise. The winners receive a cash prize and the opportunity to participate in a three-month mentoring program.

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14Oct
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From Crisis to Care. Towards resilience

The project helps reduce food insecurity and promote better nutritional and hygiene practices in Bamyan Province. It supports people experiencing extremely high levels of vulnerability, insufficient income, and a lack of support – particularly returnees, internally displaced persons and female headed-households.

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12Jan
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Women Restarting – From emergency to enterprise
Women Restarting From emergency to enterprise For over forty years, Afghanistan has endured chronic insecurity, frequent climate-related disasters and recurring conflict, all of which have progressively weakened its economic and social fabric, culminating in one of the most significant forced displacement crises in the world today.  According to data published by UNHCR, the number of [...] Read More >>
10Aug
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Renew & Restart – Women’s entrepreneurship and creative recycling
Renew & Restart. Women’s entrepreneurship and creative recycling NOVE created Renew & Restart to help reduce plastic pollution while simultaneously offering women in Kabul an opportunity for socioeconomic empowerment. Participants were selected based on vulnerability criteria such as household poverty, number of dependents, and the presence of malnourished children in the family. Personal motivation to [...] Read More >>
07Aug
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Creative recycling to assist a small community of women
Creative recycling to assist a small community of women Salerno, Italy. 2014-2016. Direct beneficiaries: 20 women. The families of the apprentices, and the neighborhood community also benefited from this initiative. For years NOVE supported the sewing laboratory of the Association ‘Sant’Andrea nell’Annunziatella’, committed to helping people in very vulnerable situations. In 2013 we donated new [...] Read More >>
07Aug
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Daring Women in Business Prize (DWB)
Daring Women in Business Prize (DWB) A pilot initiative launched by NOVE in 2020 in Kabul to encourage Afghan businesswomen to withstand the severe economic recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. An Italian-Afghan jury, composed of institutions, foundations, banks, and relevant Afghan authorities, evaluated proposals submitted by 27 businesswomen from various provinces. The Prize was [...] Read More >>
03Aug
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Aqela’s story
The long run Aqela's story Aqela, twenty-nine years old, waits for us on the street. She wears a black coat and a long black skirt. A black scarf leaves uncovered only her wonderful blue eyes. We walk with her down a street too narrow and steep for cars. We cross a gate and two small [...] Read More >>
03Aug
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Mother’s strength. Tarana’s story
Mother's strength. Tarana’s story Tarana grew up and went to school in Iran, returned with her family to Afghanistan, was married and gave birth to two children. The youngest had cerebral palsy and other major complications. The difficulties arising from these serious illnesses led to the breaking down of an already fragile marriage. Tarana faced [...] Read More >>
03Aug
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The solution is not to die. Laleh’s story.
The solution is not to die. Laleh’s story. Laleh is a graceful girl, small in stature, with a sad if not desperate expression. Three years ago her husband died in an explosion. They searched for the body without finding any evidence of it. Since then, she has been left alone with her children: a girl [...] Read More >>
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