Azada - Women for Women (sitios de interés)
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var49_Title: Azadavar50_Subtitle: Kabul, Afghanistan
var51_Image_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/gala/Afghanistan_pg_148_Azada.jpg
var52_Image_Alt_Text: Photograph by Lekha Singh
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var55_Paragraph1_Text: "I endured the cruelty of my husband because I didn't have other choices. I was also lucky enough to have a father who saved me." She left her marriage and returned home where she worked weaving carpets with her family and took another job at a textile factory. Community members derided her for leaving her husband and working outside the home. When the Taliban fell she enrolled in gender-awareness classes and learned to cut semi-precious stones--work that was previously the domain of men. Today she teaches other women stone-cutting, beadwork and design.
var56_Paragraph2_Text: From “The Other Side of War, Women’s Stories of Survival & Hope” by Zainab Salbi. Published by National Geographic, October 2006.
var57_Link1_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org
var58_Link1_Text: Visit womenforwomen.org
var59_Link2_URL: http://www.womenforwomen.org/tosowss.htm
var60_Link2_Text: Watch "The Other Side of War" slideshow.