The project aims to build 100 Zero-Carbon Food carts for underprivileged women in highly conservative societies of Afghanistan. Involving women into male-driven businesses such as doing street businesses can eliminate the decades-long stigma attached to working women in Afghanistan. Serving street food to strange men will be a first of its kind initiative in Afghanistan with a potential to lead sustainable change by encouraging more women to start doing businesses fearlessly and peacefully.
A big fraction of Afghan society stigmatizes women who take those roles or do something which is typically done by men. For example, our society propagates that woman must not do any business or any job that has male interaction. Also, a woman should not drive a car because she is a woman. Such actions deprive Afghan women from their basic human right of freedom. The strong patriarchal culture marginalizes women and limit their chances of Social mobility.
Involving women into a male-driven businesses can break the decades-long stereotypes about Afghan women who have always been excluded from many socio-economic opportunities. The initiative can empower women from many marginalized communities by giving them financial independence which can save them from domestic violence. Also, it will give hope and courage for many underprivileged women to go against the typical conservative male-dominant culture and to start doing business in freedom.
being based on a social business model, with one time donation the initiative in long term can expand itself into more underprivileged communities and serving more women in need. liberating women from domestic violence, encouraging women to start doing business and leading sustainable change at conservative communities.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
