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Article: Overstock.com is Afghanistan's largest private employer
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- The Enterprise
- Article date:
- July 19, 2004
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The Afghanistan Ministry of Commerce has reported that Worldstock, the "socially responsible" goods department of Salt Lake City-based Overstock.com, now is the largest source of private employment in Afghanistan.
Patrick Byrne, president of Overstock.com, founded Worldstock in October of 2001 in an effort to help eradicate global poverty. In August 2003 Byrne hired Neelab Kanishka, an Afghan woman who fled her homeland when she was a child, to manage Worldstock. Unlike traditional charities or relief organizations, Worldstock does not provide handouts. Worldstock contracts with skilled craftspeople in developing countries and helps them establish long-term businesses for selling their ...