Success Stories

Women from the Batken oblast in Southwest Kyrgyzstan have been manufacturing carpets for centuries. Since the emergence of mass-produced, synthetic carpets in the ‘90s, these traditional, felt carpets, called Arabiyor kakma, have become far less popular. Consequently, the younger gene

Since June 2010, twenty six local women from disadvantaged families have been involved in a project centering on milk processing in the town of Muminabad near the border with Afghanistan in southern Tajikistan. All twenty sixbeneficiaries have received training on health and hygiene p

Since June 2010, 26 sheep have found new homes in a project aimed at improving the lives of local women from disadvantaged families in the village of Tudakavash near Kulob. All thirteen families involved in the project have received two sheep each as well as extensive training on heal

Since June 2010, 25 local farmers, each supporting a large family, have been involved in a project which has transformed hectares of previously fallow land into fertile soil near the town of Khovaling in the hills of Tajikistan’s south. All the beneficiaries attended seminars held by

Fazliddin Sharopov lives in New Mastochoh, in the Tajik part of the Ferghana Valley. Like many young people in Tajikistan, he has dreams, ideas and a lot of unrealized energy. He believes that he has a great potential that can be used in different fields, but currently this is unfulfi