| A few years ago, Katrin Fakiri left a nice job in the Silicon Valley to return to her native Afghanistan for the first time in 22 years. She accepted an offer to launch a micro-credit organization that makes small, low-interest loans to poor women to start businesses. In its first four years, Fakiri’s organization has handed out 9,000 loans that women used to start businesses from carpentry to tailoring. But being an Afghan-American who owns her own business can be a risky undertaking in Afghanistan. Fariba Nawa reports. |
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