Managing Director of Sarco Abad:
Fazel Jalil (20120924)

Background:
Sarco Abad was started two years ago and is a garment manufacturing firm well known for providing everything from hi-visibility work wear to corporate polo shirts to house cleaning uniforms to kids apparel. Sarco Abad is an industry leader in garment manufacturing with a wide range of products and services.

Sarco Abad is an Afghan Women owned small business which was established to offer employment and business opportunities for Afghan women. Sarco Abad not only offers employment but also offers training, healthcare, lunches, transportation and daycare. The Sarco Abad "Daycare Center" was established as one of the key factors empowering Afghan women to enter the work force. This allows the workers the opportunity to visit their child during the work day creating a great environment for the child, mother and Sarco. Sarco Abad employees over 200 Afghan women with a current waiting list of more than 100 women.

Managers at the factory have been told they will lose the £22 million-a-year contract when responsibility for supplying the new Afghan security forces switches from Nato to the Kabul government. Government officials have said they can buy the uniforms more cheaply from China or Pakistan, but the factory's managers believe their fate has been decided by their refusal to pay hefty kickbacks to ministry staff. Unless the Sarco Abad factory can find replacement orders, it will have to lay off 230 female workers within a fortnight.(20120924) A spokeswoman for the Nato training mission said 11 Afghan firms had been given contracts to supply equipment to the Afghan forces in recent years. All contracts would be overseen by the Afghan government from October 1, 2012. As Afghanistan is a sovereign nation, we are confident our Afghan partners are making decisions in the best interest of Afghanistan," she said.

Office Address:
Golayee Wazirabad
Paycoob Naswar
Qalifatullah District # 2
Kabul, Afghanistan
Ph: +93 (0) 798 454501 

 Factory Address:
Sharake - Naw; Park-e-Sanate
Pool-e-Charkhi
Kabul, Afghanistan
Ph: +93 (0) 797 311441