Azerbaijan
Voice | ‘I did all these things so that the women would not lose hope’
Vafa Naghi is 36-years-old former journalist and graduate of Istanbul’s Sabahattin Zaim University. She could have had a bright career in Baku or abroad. But after graduation, she moved back to Kholgaragashli, the village of her birth, to start a small sewing workshop to help the local women find jobs and their independence. After submitting this piece, she was elected to the municipal council. ‘When I was in the fourth year [of university], my grandmother died and after many years away I h
