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Resources 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 Inst.i.tute of Learning http://www.afghaninst.i.tuteoflearning.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/ Inst.i.tute 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/

About the Author.

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 New York Times Global Edition, Financial Times Financial Times, International Herald Tribune International Herald Tribune, Christian Science Monitor Christian Science Monitor, CNN.com, and the Daily Beast 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 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 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 Leaders.h.i.+p Council.

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