A Story of Empowering Women & Preserving Craft
For 50 years, the nonprofit Behbud has trained women in the traditional crafts of Pakistan. There was a need to document their processes and impact, and in 2018 we began working on this book.
Behbud is a remarkable story of how embroidery became the means for women to empower themselves and save their communities from falling into poverty- all the while keeping Pakistan’s traditional crafts alive. A quote by Begum Akhtar Riazuddin, a founding member of Behbud, says: “Instead of cursing the darkness around us, one could light a few candles”. This book is the story of the light she helped spread- showing how a sincere effort can help create meaningful societal change.
