• Red and natural linen textile with navy blue diagonal stripe, laid flat on neutral background
  • Red leather clutch with rounded corners, front view on neutral background
  • Red leather pouch held open in hand, showing black interior lining and curved silhouette
  • Red and natural linen textile with navy blue diagonal stripe, laid flat on neutral background
  • Red leather clutch with rounded corners, front view on neutral background
  • Red leather pouch held open in hand, showing black interior lining and curved silhouette
Sharifa - Small Red Cosmetics Pouch with Silk Stripe

This cotton pouch can be used as a cosmetics or pencil bag, or to protect your camera or external hard disc. It is sewn from different colors  (raspberry, pistachio ) of high quality cotton combined with a nice and shiny turquoise silk stripe. The pouch is zipper-closed and padded. A nice little present for a good friend.

This pouch is also available in orange, white with a purple silk stripe.

This little pouch is made by Afghan refugee women working as part of the NGO Zardozi.

Brand

Zardozi

Zardozi, Persian for “golden stitches”, was founded by the Danish NGO DACAAR. DACAAR started working with 3000 Afghan refugee families in Pakistan in 1984, so that refugee families could afford schooling and basic health care. It registered in Kabul as an independent Afghan NGO in 2005.

Zardozi works in both Afghanistan and Pakistan helping talented Afghan craftsmen and women to find markets for their products.

Zardozi connects highly skilled, rural Afghan women with markets, as women with income are effective agents of development. By the end of 2008, a majority of Zardozi’s embroiderers returned home to eastern Afghanistan. Zardozi has been helping them to bring their livelihoods home as well, by working in eastern Afghan villages and in camps for landless returnees.