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World Service,11 Oct 2002,28 mins

Beauty In Afghanistan

Everywoman

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Plans have been put forward to build a beauty school in Kabul, Afghanistan, to teach young women to become professional beauticians and gain some independence, but the project has been criticised for putting beauty tips ahead of food and medicine. Is this project inappropriate? Also on the programme: How wearing a red coat saved a little girl from the Holocaust. Plus, the new project launched in Britain by the daughters of the Bangladeshi women who came over in the '60s.

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