Local businessman Mohammad Amiri, 35, right, sorts out spools of thread for making socks as he works with his staff, all people with disabilities, in his sock production workshop in the western Afghan ...
Forty years ago, this family-owned sock factory in Tarboro was thriving. Then business fled to Mexico almost overnight. Other textile plants in town eventually closed, but Mayo has held on and clings ...
HERAT, Afghanistan (AP) — In a tiny room in the center of Herat, Afghanistan’s westernmost city, Shahabuddin uses his hands to propel himself along the floor to a freshly-made pile of socks waiting to ...
HERAT, Afghanistan (AP) — In a tiny room in the center of Herat, Afghanistan’s westernmost city, Shahabuddin uses his hands to propel himself along the floor to a freshly-made pile of socks waiting to ...
Masood Khan sorts freshly made socks to be packaged. — Photos: AP IN a tiny room in the centre of Herat, Afghanistan’s westernmost city, Shahabuddin uses his hands to propel himself along the floor to ...