How Afghanistan's Urban Gardens are Changing Women's Lives

Jun 14, 2018 | Agence France-Presse
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It may look like they're just planting and weeding, but for the women tending the public gardens of Jalalabad, the tasks represent far more: the rare chance to work outside the home in one of Afghanistan's most conservative and unstable provinces. A hood and scarf partially hiding their faces, the women working in the eastern city's public gardens wear an ample fluorescent orange work blouse.