February 05, 2008

Flying carpets feature heavily in Middle Eastern fiction, but at Afghan Action’s Kabul factory the real things – made by hand – offer dozens of local young men and women a means of escape from the hardships of life.

Since 2005 the factory, set up with financial backing from the Department for International Development, has trained 250 young Afghans from poor homes to make the traditional carpets of the region, which can sell in Europe for hundreds of pounds.

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