The Dressmaker of Khair Khana (21 page)

Below are just a few organizations about which you might be interested to learn more:

Local organizations:

Afghanistan Center Kabul University

http://www.dupreefoundation.org/

Afghan Institute of Learning

http://www.afghaninstituteoflearning.org/

Afghan Women's Education Center

http://www.awec.info/

Afghan Women's Network

http://www.afghanwomensnetwork.org/

Afghan Women Skills Development Center

http://www.awsdc.net/

HAWCA

http://www.hawca.org/main/index.php

PARSA

http://www.afghanistan-parsa.org/

Voice of Women Organization

http://www.vwo.org.af/

Women for Afghan Women

http://www.womenforafghanwomen.org/

International organizations:

Bpeace

http://www.bpeace.org

CARE

http://www.care.org/

Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women

(Peace Through Business)

http://www.ieew.org/

Mercy Corps

http://www.mercycorps.org/

Vital Voices

http://www.vitalvoices.org

Women for Women International

http://www.womenforwomen.org/

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is a Fellow and Deputy Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2004 she left ABC News to earn her MBA at Harvard, where she began writing about women entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict zones, including Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Rwanda. Her reporting on entrepreneurs in these countries has been published by the New York Times Global Edition, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, CNN.com, and the Daily Beast as well as the World Bank and Harvard Business School. She has served as a Fulbright Scholar in Spain and a Robert Bosch Fellow in Germany. She speaks German, Spanish, French, and intermediate Dari, and lives in Los Angeles, California, where she spent the last several years working at the investment management firm PIMCO while writing The Dressmaker of Khair Khana. She is a member of the International Center for Research on Women's New Leaders Circle and the Vital Voices Los Angeles Leadership Council.

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