AWCCI Magazines Afghan Women in Business (Issue 3) | Page 3

President’s Message We hope you enjoyed reading our first and second volume of the magazine. We also hope to continue providing you the valuable information and stories on businesswomen in Afghanistan. Afghanistan Women’s Chamber of Com- merce and Industry was established to have an umbrella organization for all women business owners in the country and to serve as information sharing platform for businesswomen and policy makers of the country to aware them and help them acknowledge and give recognition to Afghan women’s economic contribution. AWCCI tries to provide information to businesses and organizations in the country about women owned businesses and consid- er buying from them. For that we launched our campaign Buy from Afghan women businesses in May 2017 and relaunched it on March 12, 2019. In order to help organ- izations and businesses get aware of the ex- istence of women-owned businesses in the country, we started publishing their profiles in the booklets since October 2017 on quar- terly basis. In the first Quarter of 2019 we decided to provide a more interesting piece of reading to our partner and public and to get our various stakeholders and public aware of the women in business in Afghanistan, we decided to publish a quarterly magazine “Af- ghan Women in Business”. We hope our readers especially women get knowledge, information, inspiration and aspiration for entrepreneurship and taking part in the economic development of the country. We hope to get constructive suggestions and what topics our readers would like to read in our magazine. We also hope we get both ac- ademic articles from female writers on eco- nomic issues and success stories of business- women to publish in our magazine. Hereby I invite you to read our third maga- zine and enjoy knowing more about our im- portant accomplishments in third quarter of 2019 such as Second Board of Directors election, following More Afghan women in business campaign, businesswomen sector specific as- sociation establishment and participation of AWCCI’s members in China Jewelry train- ing. With lots of hopes for the country’s pros- perity, Manizha Wafeq