Social entrepreneur Connie Duckworth received a call form the US Marines in Afghanistan asking for her help in developing sustainable economic growth and business within poor rural Afghan communities.
Ms. Duckworth had been working with these communities in Afghanistan well beyond the theater of war, and her reputation for success had grown. Her social venture, called ARZU, has been working with rural Afghans since 2004.
It was originally focused on helping female Afghan weavers to develop and sell the rugs they produce, but ARZU expanded its activities to develop a range of innovative start-ups providing apprenticeships and training opportunities for locals in a range of products. Duckworth said that her organization is open to almost any sort of social entrepreneurship as long as it is highly practical and has the potential to be genuinely sustainable in the long run.
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