Fashion group Monsoon Accessorize will stock Afghan products in selected stores next year, following the retailer’s partnership with women living in Kabul.

The retailer began funding an embroidery school in the capital last July via its charity The Monsoon Accessorize Trust, to help 30 female students develop their sewing skills and introduce them to modern design.

Monsoon Accessorize corporate responsibility manager Gillian Lipton said: “We will be exploring the opportunity of sourcing some of the embroidered scarves the women are producing for sale in our branches.”

The school, set up by the Turquoise Mountain Foundation, is in Murad Khane, a very poor area. The women – aged from 16 to 38 – are paid 75p day.

Turquoise Mountain Foundation community leader Nasima Mohseni said: “Before this, the students were just in the home. Now they are very happy.”

Monsoon Accessorize sourced products such as wool gilets from Afghanistan when it was established 35 years ago.

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