{"id":19163,"date":"2020-06-10T16:30:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T07:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jun\/10\/street-snacks-to-sanitiser-the-afghan-women-fighting-coronavirus-in-kabul"},"modified":"2020-06-10T16:30:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T07:30:15","slug":"street-snacks-to-sanitiser-the-afghan-women-fighting-coronavirus-in-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19163","title":{"rendered":"Street snacks to sanitiser: the Afghan women fighting coronavirus in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When lockdown closed their businesses, food sellers adapted their carts into mini disinfection units to tackle the outbreak<\/p>\n<p><em>Photographs by Stefanie Glinski<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Freshta had spent months building up a franchise business to help to feed her family \u2013 and break a few taboos on women at the same time \u2013 when coronavirus hit Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>In November, the engineering student, (who has asked to be identified by one name only) became one of a fleet of female drivers taking 40 Banu\u2019s Kitchen food carts around Kabul, serving up burgers and rice to a predominantly male customer base. \u201cAt the beginning, men on the streets would be shocked to see us driving a motorbike and selling food, but after about two or three months, they are now used to it. They even support us,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jun\/10\/street-snacks-to-sanitiser-the-afghan-women-fighting-coronavirus-in-kabul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When lockdown closed their businesses, food sellers adapted their carts into mini disinfection units to tackle the outbreakPhotographs by Stefanie GlinskiCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFreshta had spent months building up a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1069,59,914,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-global-development","category-infectious-diseases","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19164,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19163\/revisions\/19164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}