Sarah Chayes was working in Kandahar as a correspondent for US National Public Radio when the Taliban regime fell in autumn 2001. In 2002, she launched an NGO with the older brother of the Afghan President but now runs a cosmetics-making co-operative in Kandahar.
She has been invited to stand for Mayor of Kandahar, but refused. She was awarded the 1999 Foreign Press Club award for her news reportage.
Arghand, the business cooperative Sarah set up in Kandahar
Photograph © Eve Chayes Lyman
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