I was checking out the web site for Afghans for Afghans - a group that encourages the making of afghans and other warm things for people in Afghanistan (maybe also refugees in Pakistan?). I was pleased to see a photo of Fran Fisch, a San Francisco knitter, showing off a colorful afghan.
http://www.afghansforafghans.org/ The site has a link to a page for PARSA in Kabul http://www.parsa-afghanistan.org/ - there is a wonderful photo of an elder Afghan woman spindle spinning (though you can't quite see the spindle). Here are some words from the web site describing the organization: PARSA is a small, non-government organization (NGO) working directly with needy people of Kabul, Afghanistan, particularly widows, who are on the streets begging, and those who have "fallen through the cracks" of the survey nets of the big NGOs. Many of the older Afghan women are expert at spinning by hand, as this woman shows. One of the PARSA projects under the USAID grant is to organize and support a wool spinning cooperative. The program supplies wool, spinning wheels, and training so that a number of women can make a living for their families by spinning wool into thread for the carpet makers. ===== Merry Luskin, Oakland CA Reference librarian and handspinner Weeder, Librarians' Index to the Internet http://lii.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover http://greetings.yahoo.com/ To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
