Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Welcome to Dubai

Our Associates, 15 Afghan female entrepreneurs, are arriving on Saturday, November 10, from Kabul. The BARTies, as we affectionately call them, will be taking business classes at the Dubai Women's College, going on site visits to companies related to their own businesses and developing a work (and personal) relationship with members of Bpeace.

You will be meeting 15 remarkable Afghan women: a beekeeper who is the "queen" of her 80 female beekeepers; three soccer ball manufacturers who put the mom back into soccer; a commercial printer who we hope to encourage to go digital; a furniture maker who is literally participating in the rebuilding of Kabul; and more and more--from a producer of designer mint water to an importer of heating oil--stay tuned as we will update daily!

1 comment:

susi said...

Jess! Laur! et al. I am tuned to your buzz......hope the trip was O.K.

sending lots of xxxxxxxxxxxx's