
When Fatima and Hassan Ali returned to Kabul after the fall of the Taliban, they decided to open a bookstore in a neighborhood full of schools. A $660 loan stocked their shelves full of books and a glass counter with notebooks and pens. "Profits from the tiny store ѩimproved our lives," ѠFatima says. "Iщn the future, we hope to grow our business by removing a wall so we have more space." ѠKabul, Afghanistan, 2007