Six months ago, the foreign screeches of ten sewing machines began humming in a rural Moroccan village in the Middle Atlas Mountains. Amongst a cedar forest and fruit orchards, the echoes of the machines sounded more like rusty old diesel engines, 26-year-old Peace Corps Volunteer Audrey Huetteman recalls.
Forty women had enrolled in a six-month sewing training program with uncertain hopes of learning a new technical skill that could potentially lead to job opportunities. The women were nervous-excited, Audrey says. Daunted by the six months ahead.
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