Nuur Women’s Center

Our Nuur Women’s Center was established in 2023 as a place where women can learn practical skills, build capacity, and gather together to share their lives as well as what they are learning.

Sewing

Empowering and equipping women with the knowledge and skills they need to start their own seamstress businesses, with an emphasis on quality, creativity, and a desire to serve the community through training others in what they have learned.

Embroidery

Teaching participants embroidery in order to foster sustainable skill development, so that women who have taken part in the course can work for themselves and teach others, too.


Hear from our participants

Counting down the days

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Sano had always been interested in learning to embroider and was excited to gain a new skill. She had looked at embroidery courses before, but they all charged a fee, which she knew she couldn’t afford each month. When her friend brought her to Nuur Women’s Center – part of Omega’s projects in Vahdat –…

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Rozia the Tailor: Growing in skills, growing in business

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When Rozia and her family of 7 arrived in Tajikistan – just one month before the previous government of Afghanistan fell – she wasn’t sure how they would make ends meet. While it was good to feel safe, there were still plenty of challenges they had to face. “We didn’t have a place to stay…

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