Anna, My apologies for responding so late. To my knowledge, there is no available data that tracks the percentage of Afghan women who are entrepreneurs. This is a goal the Institute has had for a couple of years now. With the best of research, we can only estimate the total number of women business owners there are in the country. However, in an article I recently read via Relief Web, the Herat Chamber of Commerce director is quoted as saying there are 1,500 female, small business owners there. Two of our graduates also own their own women's organizations. One of them, Qandi Amaki, is founder of the Balkh Women's Business Association, which has more than 650 members and she has trained nearly 300 more to develop business plans and start micro businesses. Kubra Zalfi is another business entrpreneur who has a women's business association that has 500 members. I have only pointed out 3,000 women entrpreneurs but there are so many other women who have their own businesses and are training others to do the same AND be successful. -Dr. Terry Neese
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Anna, My apologies for responding so late. To my knowledge, there is no available data that tracks the percentage of Afghan women who are entrepreneurs. This is a goal the Institute has had for a couple of years now. With the best of research, we can only estimate the total number of women business owners there are in the country. However, in an article I recently read via Relief Web, the Herat Chamber of Commerce director is quoted as saying there are 1,500 female, small business owners there. Two of our graduates also own their own women's organizations. One of them, Qandi Amaki, is founder of the Balkh Women's Business Association, which has more than 650 members and she has trained nearly 300 more to develop business plans and start micro businesses. Kubra Zalfi is another business entrpreneur who has a women's business association that has 500 members. I have only pointed out 3,000 women entrpreneurs but there are so many other women who have their own businesses and are training others to do the same AND be successful. -Dr. Terry Neese
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