Women business owners discuss possible business opportunities with each other at a Business Matchmaking event held by Building Markets in Kabul.

Copyright: James Rexroad/Building Markets

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Construction worker in Kabul. Building Markets helped create 65,000 full-time equivalent jobs in Afghanistan since it began in 2006.

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A buyer hands out business cards to Afghan businesswomen at a matchmaking event in Kabul held by Building Markets.

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An employee of Khan Engineering in the Pul-e-Charki Industrial Park in Kabul. Building Markets helped create 65,000 full-time equivalent jobs in Afghanistan since it began in 2006.

Copyright: James Rexroad/Building Markets

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The Business Development Executive of Nemo Afghan Agribusiness kneels in the company’s greenhouse. With help from Building Markets, Nemo supplies flowers and landscaping services to the United Nations.

Copyright: Mariana Keller/Building Markets

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Employees of Kabul Melli Trading sew together the insoles of boots. Through Building Markets' Matchmaking services, the company won several international contracts to produce boots.

Copyright: Mariana Keller/Building Markets

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Employees of Kabul Melli Trading in Kabul shape the lining of boots. Through Building Markets' Matchmaking services, the company won several international contracts to produce boots.

Copyright: Mariana Keller/Building Markets

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A Timor man from the Ermera district produces coffee in the traditional way and sells it at his stand in the marketplace.

Copyright: Lirio Fonseca/Building Markets

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Forty young Timorese are receiving mobile phone IC installation training from T. Kong, the first electronic company in Manatuto. In the future this will hire more than 4,000 Timorese to produce all kinds of electronics for Timor-Leste.

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This chicken farm is the first and only large, commercial chicken farm in Timor-Leste. Building Markets promoted the farm through blogs and Facebook. Selling the eggs locally has minimized the importation of eggs from Indonesia, keeping money in Timor-Leste’s economy.

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Timor-Leste’s traditional marketplace is filled with farmers and agricultural cooperatives selling their produce, such as yams shown here.

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A floor manager of INDEPCO sewing cooperative watches an employee work. INDEPCO is a network of 800 small businesses across Haiti that produces everything from school uniforms and backpacks to Digicel aprons.

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A worker cuts a piece of fabric in INDEPCO’s main workspace in Port-au-Prince. INDEPCO is a network of 800 small businesses across Haiti that produces everything from school uniforms and backpacks to Digicel aprons.

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Sonac-Agricole is a seafood exporter in Haiti that exports fish, lobster and sea cucumbers across the world. The company does business with 50 fishing cooperatives across the country, providing incomes for 5,000 Haitians, including this family on the southern coast of Haiti.

Copyright: Mariana Keller/Building Markets

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This man lost his sight several years ago and was unable to continue working as a field hand. He found a job weaving nets for fisherman employed by a Haitian seafood exporter, whom Building Markets helped win a major contract with a Chinese company.

Copyright: Mariana Keller/Building Markets

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Women from a fishing village on the southern coast of Haiti gut sea cucumbers for seafood exporter Sonac-Agricole. The company does business with 50 fishing cooperatives across the country, employing 5,000 Haitians.

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