Women in Balochistan
The CISD Women’s Program is working with tribes in the Balochistan region to assist women in creating small economic projects designed to bring in supplemental income. These projects will help teach women to turn daily household tasks into a lucrative business. Jobs such as selling excess handicraft, tending livestock and teaching can easily be accomplished without taking them away from their lives as home. With additional resources from these projects, more families have the means to send their daughters to school or employ other women in the community. Also they are able to have a reliable source of income to use towards food, healthcare and other basic needs. As the number of women’s businesses rise, we have an opportunity to end the cycle of poverty and abuse that exists in nomadic and tribal societies.