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World Bank Country Director for Afghanistan, Shubham Chaudhuri, announces a new financing package that will help Afghanistan with refugees, expand private-sector opportunities for the poor, boost the development of five cities, expand electrification, improve food security, and build rural roads. Read more: http://wrld.bg/fkl630cznEY | World Bank Afghanistan

Like 21,000 other Afghan villagers in the eastern Nangarhar Province, Nazeema received a loan to start her small business. She used hers to buy a sewing machine and a cow. The mother of six, with an ill husband, she produces 150 dresses every two weeks and supplies them to the local market. Watch how the support provided through the Afghanistan Rural Enterprise Development Program helps many #Afghans like Nazeema: | World Bank Afghanistan