Ebook {Epub PDF} Embroidering within Boundaries: Afghan Women Creating a Future by Rangina Hamidi

Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. Rangina started an entrepreneurial enterprise, using the exquisite traditional embroidery of Kandahar, to help women work within the cultural boundaries of Pashtunwali to earn their living and to find a degree of self-determination. Thus Kandahar Treasure was born/5. Rangina Hamidi is the social entrepreneur who launched Kandahar Treasure in , a for-profit business enterprise focused on rebuilding women’s lives from a war-torn society. As Kandahar Treasure developed, hundreds of women (mostly widows) now have gained enough independence to buy the basic needs of flour, rice, sugar, tea, matches, medicine, and school supplies.5/5(11).

Embroidering within Boundaries (Paperback). 'This magnificent book allows us to peer behind the veil to behold the world of beauty, pride, and meaning. Embroidering within Boundaries: Afghan Women Creating a Future: Hamidi, Rangina, Littrell, Mary: www.doorway.ru: Books. As one khamak embroidery stitch builds upon another, so too does the narrative of each woman's life touched by the work of Kandahar Treasure and its founder Rangina Hamidi. Rangina and Mary Littrell, co-authors of Embroidering within Boundaries: Afghan Women Creating a Future, captured the stories of the Afghan Pashtun women of Kandahar Treasures.. Both authors recognized the importance of.

Rangina started an entrepreneurial enterprise, using the exquisite traditional embroidery of Kandahar, to help women work within the cultural boundaries of Pashtunwali to earn their living and to find a degree of self-determination. Thus Kandahar Treasure was born. Rangina Hamidi is a world-class problem solver. This becomes abundantly clear as you read her personal story in Embroidering Within Boundaries: Afghan Women Creating a Future, co-authored with Mary Littrell. When the problem was women in Kandahar, often widowed with no means of support and always sequestered, she founded Kandahar Treasure. This allowed women to work at home doing culturally-approved work and thus gain a degree of autonomy. She decided to start an entrepreneurial enterprise, using the traditional embroidery of Kandahar, to help the women work within their cultural boundaries, earning a living and finding a degree of self-determination. Thus Kandahar Treasure was born.