Homeless weavers demand their township legalization

Beijing. June 5. Silkroadnews - Legal procedures for recognizing the village of Afghan weavers are completed, but have not yet entered into force and a lack of permanent housing is still a problem for people living there, the Afghan Telegraph Agency reports.
The carpet weavers say when they get carpet making order from a company, they are asked about house ownership documents, but they live in rented homes and most of businessmen avoid inking contracts with the homeless, Pajhwok Afghan News writes.
Living in rented houses is itself a problem for carpet weavers, as they are sometimes asked to leave the house when work on the carpet is still in process.
Sharif Ahamdzai, a resident of Nangarhar, has been carpet-making for the past 17 years. Now he owns a small carpet company, where women work.
He said the weavers did not have their own housing, so the companies avoided making contracts with them.
If a separate settlement for the weavers is created, they will be able to build two-room houses there, where one room will be intended for living, and the second - for carpet weaving.
“When carpet weaving is in the middle stages, owner of the houses asks us to evacuate the house or pay more rent. We have no other option but to accept the rent of his choice and as a result we don’t get profit from carpets and instead suffer losses,” the agency quoted saying by one of the weavers.
Governor Hayatullah Hayat acknowledged the problem faced by weavers and assured that he would find a solution to their problem.
He said that in the near future the village for weavers of carpets will be officially opened.
It should be noted that at present about 5000 women in the east of the country are engaged in carpet weaving.