U.S. Pakistani Couple’s Unique Entrepreneurship Helps Needy Back Home

Moved by the plight of slum-dwelling weavers, most of them women, in Mohammed Zakir’s hometown of Karachi in Pakistan, the Zakirs have started a small business, Silk Route Crafts, to import the workers’ fabrics and fabric goods. The hope is to sell enough to Americans to send a decent wage to the workers, who Mohammed said have a good year if they earn the equivalent of $1,000.
Big ambitions begin with baby steps, and for now, Silk Route Crafts is no threat to Martha Stewart.