Dr Ruha Shadab behind India’s First and Only Incubator for Indian Muslim Women
New
Age Islam News Bureau
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December 2020
• Honour Killing of Ola Salem in Staten Island; Father Charged with Murder
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Two Young Saudi ‘Sheroes’ Accelerate Dakar Rally Preparations
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Saudia to Hire 50 Saudi Women as Flight Attendants
•
Retiring Founder of Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation Leaves A Legacy Of Strong,
Kind Leadership
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‘Trafficked’ Woman Pleads For Repatriation from Saudi Arabia
•
Exemplary Women From All Over the Globe Share Their Views to Create A Better
World
•
Iranian Women Turn to Making Masks as Pandemic Dries Demand for Handicrafts
Compiled
by New Age Islam News Bureau
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Dr Ruha Shadab behind India’s First and Only Incubator for Indian Muslim Women
Vidya
Raja
December
29, 2020
LedBy, India’s first and only incubator for Indian
Muslim Women, helps them by providing leadership workshops
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Dr
Ruha Shadab (30) is the founder of LedBy Foundation, India’s first and only
leadership incubator focused on empowering Indian Muslim Women by providing
leadership experiences to undergraduates and postgraduates. Launched in 2019,
LedBy was incubated at Harvard University and was pre-seed funded by them as
well.
Dr
Ruha has been quite an achiever all her life – she pursued her medical degree,
worked as a physician for a few years, then decided to join public health and
worked at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), worked with NITI Aayog
and then made her way to Harvard with a full-tuition scholarship to pursue a
master’s degree in public policy. At Harvard, Dr Ruha realised the need to do
something for Indian Muslim women given the specific challenges that they
faced, and also found the medium to address the problem.
From
a religious majority to a religious minority
To
understand why Dr Ruha felt the need to start an initiative for Indian Muslim
women, it is imperative to understand her early influences.
While
Dr Ruha is originally from India, she was born and raised in Saudi Arabia and
she spent the first decade of her life there before moving to Delhi/NCR.
Narrating
an incident that left a deep impact on her, which eventually led her to start
this initiative, she says, “Twenty years ago, it was on Diwali that my family
and I moved back to India. While driving from the airport to our home I saw
every house on the way lit up and children on the streets bursting fire
crackers. This suddenly took me back to the Diwali’s in Saudi and I realised
how my friends there, the minority, never celebrated it in this way.” After a
few years, she saw Eid in a similar light as Diwali.
She
says, “In Saudi, as part of a monolithic society, one does not even think of
what the minority is feeling. And then I moved to India where so many things
just hit me so hard.” That is when she understood what being a Muslim woman,
especially in a multicultural society like India, felt like.
100
million Muslim women, but where are they?
It
was not like there were not enough Muslim women, but they were hard to find in
the mainstream.
“It
was tiring, after a point of time to be the only Muslim woman in school,
college, workplace. There was no one who shared a similar background as me whom
I could look up to and aspire to be and that is what I wanted to change,” she
says. During Dr Ruha’s stint as a clinical physician, she says, “At the
hospital I worked at, I would see so many young Muslim girls with large
families. Without saying it was right or wrong, what I saw was that there was
an issue that needed to be addressed.”
Dr
Ruha believes that there is a lot of talent in them [Indian Muslim women] but
what they lack is 3 A’s: agency, access, and avenues. LedBy is looking to
change that. If you have the privilege of knowing, you do not have the luxury
of not doing,” says Dr Ruha.
What
is LedBy?
LedBy
works closely with high potential college-going Muslim women in India and
provides them with three things – leadership workshops, 360* advisory
framework, and executive coaching. “For all these three things we have very
skilled women, across regions and religions, on-board to help the younger women
realise and achieve their potential,” says Dr Ruha.
“We
have been able to get coaches, mentors, and facilitators from across the globe.
Being a virtual program helps breaks barriers,” she says. It is a summer
program of four months in which 24 women are selected on merit. To be eligible
to apply for this programme, you must identify yourself as an Indian Muslim
woman, no more than two years away from completing a full-time undergraduate
degree (that means, is in 3rd or 4th years of a 4-year program; 2nd or 3rd year
of a 3-year program) or are in a full-time postgraduate program of one or two
years duration, and physically reside in India.
How
it has helped
For
the 24 women who were part of the first cohort – what stood out were the
connections that they made and the validation that their ideas and dreams
received from others at the programme. While for Ammara Gul Qaisar, a student
at Lady Shri Ram College, the programme “represents the power of human connections”,
for Sahreen Shamim the programme allowed her a chance to delve into her dreams
and find ways of realising them.
With
an office based in Noida, Dr Ruha says that everything that they do is virtual
and in a sense COVID-19 only helped in pushing it towards being online.
https://www.thebetterindia.com/246035/ruha-shadab-noida-muslim-woman-delhi-saudi-arabia-foundation-incubator-harvard-mentor-leadership-vid01/
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Honour
Killing of Ola Salem in Staten Island; Father Charged with Murder
By
Benyamin Davidson
DEC
29, 2020
In October 2019, Ola Salem was found dead. She had
been a well-loved volunteer at a domestic violence shelter in South Brooklyn
for Muslim women and youth. Photo Credit: Instagram
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Kabary
Salem, father of the 25-year-old whose body was discovered in a park on Staten
Island last year, virtually appeared in court last week in connection with his
daughter’s death. As reported by the NY Times, Mr. Salem is being charged with
a seven-count indictment including murder, strangulation and concealment of a
human corpse.
In
October 2019, Ola Salem was found dead. She had been a well-loved volunteer at
a domestic violence shelter in South Brooklyn for Muslim women and youth. The
local media had immediately suspected her husband, whom the police said she had
a turbulent relationship with. At that time, her father steered investigators
in a different direction, saying that she had several times spoken of being
followed on the highway.
As
per the Times, now, a year later, authorities believe this was a tale her
father fabricated to mislead investigators. Mr. Salem,52, is now the prime
suspect for allegedly killing his daughter, and dragging her body into
Bloomingdale Park in the Prince’s Bay neighborhood to conceal it with branches
and leaves. Court records show that he pleads not guilty. His lawyer did not
immediately respond to requests for comment.
“Throughout
the course of this tragic case, we had never lost hope that the alleged killer
would be arrested and charged,” Michael E. McMahon, the Staten Island district
attorney said in a statement. “We will continue to work tirelessly to hold this
defendant accountable.”
On
October 23, 2019, Ola Salem had been in Pennsylvania with her father, who
worked as a driver and was formerly a professional boxer who competed in the
Olympics. Law enforcement officials assert that the investigation turned when
it was the discovered that Mr. Salem had rented a car from Avis on Oct. 22. Mr.
Salem had originally told investigators that he had driven his daughter home to
New York in their family car. Detectives learned that Mr. Salem used the rental
car to travel extensively in Staten Island, and made a stop in the park where
her body was discarded.
Police
allege that Mr. Salem strangled his daughter in Pennsylvania, drove to Staten
Island to dump her body in the park, returned to Pa and then later fled the
country. In December. Mr. Salem was arrested in Kuwait with help from the State
Department and Interpol, and extradited back to NY. Prosecutors have not
revealed a motive for the killing. Mr. Salem is slated to appear in court again
on Feb. 5.
https://thejewishvoice.com/2020/12/honor-killing-of-muslim-woman-in-staten-island-father-charged-with-murder-2/
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Two
Young Saudi ‘Sheroes’ Accelerate Dakar Rally Preparations
December
30, 2020
RIYADH:
Two Saudi women are aiming to make history as the first female athletes from
the Kingdom to participate in the annual Dakar Rally, as part of a team dubbed
the “Sheroes.”
Co-captains
Dania Akeel and Mashael Alobaidan hope to become a symbol of the country’s
development and inspire women in Saudi Arabia to pursue their passions and
follow their dreams, with a six-month project designed to train them up for the
race in 2022.
Akeel,
who is also one of Sheroes’ project managers, said that she has been passionate
about driving for as long as she can remember. She rode her first quad bike
aged 8, and her first 150cc dirt bike in the desert at 14.
“I
believe it is only natural for me to partake in one of the most challenging
desert championships around the world, which also happens to take place in our
sandy backyard,” she said.
Akeel
was also the recipient of the “Rookie of the Year” award during her first
racing season, for the Ducati Cup in the UAE National Sportbike Super series
2019/2020 season.
Alobaidan,
the second driver and project manager, said that she had also been involved in
sports and outdoor activities from a young age. In addition to her experience
with buggies, dirt bikes, and motorcycles, she is also a Professional
Association of Diving Instructors certified advanced scuba and freediver.
“I
am excited to be part of Dakar and discover the great outdoor treasures that
Saudi Arabia embodies,” she said. “Dakar will be a dream come true.”
Alobaidan
also holds a US motorcycle driver’s license and received navigation and safety
training in California, US.
Iole
de Simone, project director and rider, has trained and developed with various
sport teams and disciplines across five countries. She has both competed in and
organized local, regional, and international events.
De
Simone was the first to contact both Akeel and Alobaidan, and is now looking to
expand the team with two more members to meet the four-person requirement of
the Dakar Rally.
“We
have two potential Saudi ladies who might join us as co-pilots. We’re currently
in negotiations with them. I’m also in contact with two Saudi male drivers who
participated in last year’s rally,” she told Arab News.
She
said that the team was also hoping to get the first female Saudi dirtbiker to
join them as well.
“We
are planning on launching an Instagram page where we will advertise what we are
looking for. Everything was slowed down because of the coronavirus pandemic,
but we are still moving forward,” she added.
Behind
the team stand two coaches: Poles Marek Dabrowski and Jacek Czachor, who
together achieved five CC FIM World Championship titles, and have collectively
participated in the Dakar Rally 15 times.
These
two legends of the sport will be teaching the team how to transfer their bike
skills to the car they intend to drive during the 2022 Dakar Rally.
In
addition to the coaches, the team also includes Filip Dabrowski, a professional
team manager for the Dakar Rally and Cross Country World Championship events.
He has been active in the sport since 2004, and has completed 13 rallies.
The
team will begin their training in February 2021 with a Polaris RZR 1000.
Following that, they intend to compete in 6 SAMF Cross Country and Baja
Championship rounds, the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge in November, before finally
reaching their goal of the 2022 Dakar Rally.
At
a launch event celebrating the team held recently in Riyadh, Akeel and
Alobaidan offered advice to young Saudi women who want to follow in their
footsteps.
“The
best advice that I’ve ever gotten was ‘if it’s good for you and it’s good for
everyone else, you should follow it.’ For me, racing and competing and driving
pushes me towards excellence. This is what I would advise others to do,” Akeel
said.
“Find
what you’re passionate about, and just go for it. Even if you see obstacles,
just bear with them. Try to overcome them and achieve your dreams. It’s all
about passion,” she concluded.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1784781/saudi-arabia
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Saudia
to Hire 50 Saudi Women as Flight Attendants
December
29, 2020
JEDDAH
— Saudi Arabian Airlines announced the hiring of 50 Saudi women as flight
attendants. Speaking to Okaz/Saudi Gazette, the national carrier sources
confirmed that 50 airhostess positions have been allocated for female citizens
in the first phase to work in Jeddah and Riyadh stations. They will take up job
after undergoing training for two months.
Saudi
Arabian Airlines announced earlier about the opening of jobs for Saudi women to
work in the field of airhostess. The airline stipulated that the minimum
qualification is secondary education and the age is between 20 and 30 years
with fluency in English language.
The
applicant’s weight shall be proportional to height according to the Saudi
Airlines standards, in addition to passing the medical examination, the airline
sources said.
Saudi
Airlines recently celebrated the occasion of achieving 100 percent Saudization
in the position of co-pilot in the national carrier.
In
last January, Flynas, a low-cost Saudi private airline, said it would start
recruiting Saudi women to work as air hostesses, in a new first while creating
new job opportunities for women. It will be the first among Saudi carriers to
recruit women in senior positions.
https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/601949/SAUDI-ARABIA/Saudia-to-hire-50-Saudi-women-as-flight-attendants
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Retiring
founder of Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation leaves a legacy of strong, kind
leadership
By
Rifat Malik
Dec
28, 2020
It’s
hard to imagine that one of America’s greatest tragedies — the 9/11 terrorist
attacks and the backlash against American Muslims — would lead to the formation
of an empowering grassroots organization in Dallas-Fort Worth, the Texas Muslim
Women’s Foundation.
As
the nonprofit celebrates 15 years of championing interfaith sisterhood and
providing social services for thousands of vulnerable women and children, it’s
also paying a farewell tribute to its retiring co-founder and a beloved
community leader, Hind Jarrah.
A
reflective Jarrah remembers those early years when local faith communities,
reeling from the negative attitudes about Muslims, sought solace in one
another.
“I
started receiving invitations to present about Islam and Muslims in various
venues: schools, colleges, churches, synagogues, clubs and women’s groups,”
says the 70-year-old mother of three grown daughters.
“DFW
Women’s Interfaith Dialogue was formed at SMU Perkins School of Theology with
my soul sister, Rev. Isabel Docampo,” Jarrah says. “This brought women from all
denominations and faiths together to know one another and build friendship and
understanding for one another.”
Still
on faculty at SMU, Docampo recalls how Hind’s personality and faith helped
navigate some tense conversations.
“We
had so many misconceptions to overcome,” she says. “Through the years, we came
together monthly (sometimes more), broke bread together in one another’s homes,
celebrated, births, weddings and deaths, and we weathered a war in the Middle
East as well as prayed together when the U.S. invaded Iraq.”
In
2004, Jarrah received a seminal invitation to attend a Dallas Women’s
Foundation (now Texas Women’s Foundation) committee meeting and was inspired by
this outreach to call an organizational meeting of Muslim women from different
backgrounds and walks of life.
One
year later, the foundation was born.
Jarrah
notes that the organization was able to launch with crucial philanthropic
support from the Harold Simmons Foundation and a “life-changing” grant from the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The seed money enabled the foundation to
fulfill its mission “to empower, promote and support women and their families
through education, outreach, philanthropy and social services.” In 2010, the
Peaceful Oasis Shelter, run by the foundation for abused and displaced women
and children, opened its doors.
Born
in Lebanon to a family of Palestinian refugees who had lived in Acre, Israel,
until l948, Jarrah knows about displacement. Hard life lessons and the
teachings of her Islamic faith kept her afloat during those tumultuous years.
She
credits her father for passing along ancient teachings from Abraham, Moses,
Jesus and Muhammad. “He taught us that life’s hardships make one a better human
being, and this life is a series of tests.”
Jarrah
has risen to the challenges of running the foundation, and those who know her
say her commanding but warm presence has been instrumental in achieving the
foundation’s successful growth. It has a $3 million budget, operates two
shelters, manages over 25 transitional apartments and supports more than 40 part-time
and full-time staff members. She is widely respected in a largely conservative
Muslim community, no mean achievement considering the stigma attached to
advocating on issues like domestic violence, which permeates most cultures and
communities.
“The
Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation exists because of Hind’s vision, hard work and
empowerment of other women and men to enlarge that vision,” says SMU’s Docampo.
“And she does all of this with a great deal of humility. She never shines the
light on herself, but prefers to point the light toward others. It is never
about her; it’s about the vision.”
Jarrah
is keen to emphasize the dedication of staff and volunteers, including the
newly appointed executive director, Mona Kafeel.
More
than a decade of guidance by Jarrah has been instructive, Kafeel says. She says
it’s been a challenge to reverse the view that abuse in the home is a “family
matter” or “private matter.”
Ultimately,
Kafeel says, “Being in the domestic violence movement has its teaching moments.
Most days, I’m thankful for the blessings I take for granted. When I see women
changing their lives and thriving after going through such traumas, it makes me
continue the work.”
Kafeel
describes her mentor Jarrah as a “trailblazer and a compassionate human being.”
“She
has truly left a legacy of hope for anyone and everyone,” Kafeel says.
Both
women share a powerful belief in sisterhood and Islam’s prophetic tradition of
honoring and empowering women. “I believe that women have the resourcefulness,
the resilience, the dedication, commitment and perseverance to achieve whatever
they set their mind to,” Jarrah says. “The woman that rocks the cradle with her
left hand — can rock the world with her right hand!”
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/inspired/2020/12/28/retiring-founder-of-texas-muslim-womens-foundation-leaves-a-legacy-of-strong-kind-leadership/
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‘Trafficked’
Woman Pleads For Repatriation from Saudi Arabia
29
December 2020
Cambodian
authorities are searching for Ly Rohimas, a 26-year-old Cambodian Muslim woman
from Memot district in Tbong Khmum province, who has claimed to be a victim of
human trafficking.
Authorities
were alerted to her situation after she made a plea to Prime Minister Hun Sen
to bring her home in a Facebook post on December 28.
She
claimed to have been cheated by a broker in 2017 and sent to Saudi Arabia,
according to a senior police officer in the Ministry of Interior’s Anti-Human
Trafficking and Juvenile Protection Bureau.
Bureau
director Chiv Phally told The Post on December 28 that officials are trying to
contact the victim who has a Facebook account registered as Rohimah binti
Mohamad Aly.
An
official from the Cambodian embassy in Saudi Arabia is also currently searching
for her, Phally said, as well as another group of officials who have been
tasked with searching for relatives in her hometown.
“However,
we don’t yet have any leads on her whereabouts. We are trying to get her back
to Cambodia,” he said.
In
a short video clip posted on her Facebook account, Rohimas described being
trafficked and held captive.
“I
am living in Saudi Arabia. I was cheated by [a] broker who ‘sold’ me to Saudi
Arabia in 2017. There is no authority or organisation to intervene to get me
out of this country.
“About
my living condition . . . [the] house owner beats me
almost every day, but I cannot get help from anyone. The house owner took away
all of my personal documents. I have not received any salary or allowance.
Moreover, I am prohibited from going out to meet anyone.
“I
am an orphan who lived with my old grandmother and two younger siblings. I left
my house [in Cambodia] to work [with the hope of] feeding my family from a
young age. I didn’t expect that they would take me or sell [me] like this,” she
said.
Othman
Hassan, Senior Minister in charge of Special Missions who is also a Muslim
leader in Cambodia, could not be reached for comment on December 29.
Centre
for Alliance of Labour and Human Rights executive director Moeun Tola said that
in some countries where Cambodian migrant workers are living, the rights and
values of women are not respected.
He
urged the government to prevent Cambodian citizens, particularly women, from
going to work in these countries before bilateral agreements are established to
protect them.
“I
still cannot understand why, when we do not have a memorandum of understanding
for Cambodians to work in certain countries, there are Cambodian migrant
workers who are working illegally there.
“There
is no clear policy, so these kinds of cases continue occurring. Why is there no
clear action from the government [in response]?” he asked.
Tola
urged the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and
relevant authorities to follow-up on Rohimas’ case immediately. He said the
government needs to rescue her from the abuse and bring her home.
Ministry
of Labour and Vocational Training spokesman Heng Sour said on December 29 that
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Cambodian
embassy in Saudi Arabia were seeking information on where and how to intervene
in order to return the victim to Cambodia.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/trafficked-woman-pleads-repatriation-saudi-arabia
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Exemplary
Women From All Over the Globe Share Their Views to Create A Better World
December
29, 2020
Sharjah:
Exemplary women from across the world have come together to help alleviate the
psychological fatigue brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic with a campaign
titled ‘Athena 40 — Voices of Tenacity’. The campaign is the latest endeavour
of long-time strategic partners Sharjah’s Nama Women Advancement Establishment
(Nama) and London-based Global Thinkers Forum (GTF).
Athena40
is a hybrid platform that creates opportunities for women to thrive, access new
networks and showcase their achievements. The campaign features more than 40
leading women and a podcast series, ‘Athena40 — Conversations with Women’,
showcasing 12 forward-thinkers and decision-makers.
Global
outlook
The
campaign offers a global perspective on how women have risen above the
challenges posed by the pandemic. Leveraging its exceptional network of women
influencers, Athena40 has secured messages from Jordan, Saudi Arabia, United
Kingdom, Italy, Lebanon, Nigeria, Turkey, Kuwait, Switzerland, Greece, United
States, South Africa, Pakistan, Ivory Coast, Luxembourg, Belgium, Chile and
also in partnership with Nama from the UAE, Kuwait and Brazil.
Prominent
names include Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, Unesco Special Envoy for Science
for Peace; British philanthropist Dame Stephanie Shirley, Meera AlMheiri, board
Member at The Supreme Council of Motherhood and Childhood; lawyer Diana Hamade;
mountaineer and explorer Raha Moharrak; Mary Davis, CEO Special Olympics;
Nnenna Nwakanma, ambassador World Wide Web Foundation; Attiya Mahmood,
ambassador (Rtd) Pakistan; Brazilian entrepreneur Bel Pesce; and Dr Alanoud
AlSharekh, director Ibtkar Consulting, and several others.
Better
future for generations
Elizabeth
Filippouli, founder and CEO of Athena40, said: “At the heart of all this, we
have been granted a tremendous opportunity to create a better world for future
generations. As women, let’s multiply the ways in which we demonstrate our
compassion and care for others. Let’s share messages of vision and hope,
messages of endurance and resilience. This is what tenacity is all about and we
need to be tenacious to survive and thrive in an unpredictable world.”
“Hope
is a powerful force during difficult times, and ‘Voices of Tenacity’ offers the
tools to keep you motivated, find a new perspective or purpose, and drive
social impact,” added Reem BinKaram, director of Nama Women Advancement
Establishment. “The women changemakers featured in our videos and podcasts have
many of the answers and insights we need right now. Their empowering words will
spur communities worldwide to take action by leveraging their creative vision
to initiate positive changes,” she added.
https://gulfnews.com/uae/exemplary-women-from-all-over-the-globe-share-their-views-to-create-a-better-world-1.76155421
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Iranian
Women Turn to Making Masks as Pandemic Dries Demand for Handicrafts
DECEMBER
30, 2020
As
the coronavirus pandemic ravages Iran, home to the Mideast’s worst outbreak, a
women’s group hopes to empower its members by helping them make and sell face
masks.
The
organization called “Bavar,” or “Belief” in Farsi, formed in 2016, allowing
women looking for work to make handicrafts with donated sewing machines. It
gave widows and others a way to earn cash in a country whose anemic economy
only worsened since, two years later, President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S.
from Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers.
Sara
Chartabian, the founder of Bavar, said the group tries to teach women to be
self-sufficient as unemployment and inflation remain high.
“We
teach them fishing instead of giving them a fish,” Chartabian said.
The
pandemic, however, has seen the demand for handicrafts drop. Iran has 1.2
million reported cases of the virus, with about 1 million recoveries and over
55,000 deaths — with officials acknowledging the true toll could be far higher.
Meanwhile, the women in need still had to earn money to support their families.
So
the women at Bavar decided to begin making cloth face masks. Today, some 50
women sit with their sewing machines, creating two-ply cloth masks. A third
layer can be added with material sold in local pharmacies.
Elham
Karami, a 41-year-old woman who works five days a week to support her two sons,
said she makes around 10,000 rials (3 U.S. cents) for each face mask she sews.
Clients for Bavar include companies and others.
“I
am grateful for this (organization) because they turned me to a skilled tailor
for free,” Karami said. “They allowed me to use a sewing machine to learn how
to sew. They also provided materials for me to work on.”
Depending
on the order size, Bavar then sells the masks for as much as 250,00 rials (96
U.S. cents) apiece.
In
Iran, where the capital of Tehran has been hard-hit by the virus, authorities
have mandated mask wearing. While fines for not wearing a mask remain low and
poorly enforced, the public increasingly has been seen wearing them.
Chartabian
said Bavar’s sales help support buying materials, sewing machines and other
matters. The organization also provides women with psychological counseling and
other support. She declined to offer specific sales figures for the masks so
far, but said every bit helped support women in need.
“Maybe
the money is not so much, but we provide them services such as psychological
counseling and also equipment,” she said.
https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/iranian-women-turn-to-making-masks-as-pandemic-dries-demand-for-handicrafts-3227882.html
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