Doro LLC is a well-known retailer in Dushanbe, Tajikistan that specializes in office equipment and computers, furniture, mobile phones, and other electronic goods.  They also own a subsidiary company Art Echo that manufactures school and office furniture.  Art Echo has been an EDP client since June 2004 when the completed a Strategic Action Plan with EDC Manager Rahmat Khakulov.   Doro’s main goal at the Rebuild Afghanistan Trade Fair in Afghanistan on 9 – 12 November 2005 was to promote its Art Echo line of furniture for export. 

 

Although Doro did not make any contracts at the exhibition itself, they made many contacts that were impressed by both the quality and the value of their furniture. They also left several samples of their furniture with an economic relations officer at the Tajik Embassy in Kabul.  This proved to be a good move for Doro.  The Tajik Embassy had contact with a company that is currently renovating a middle school in the Badakshan region of Afghanistan.

The Afghan company Koofab Limited contacted Doro’s director Abduahad   Ashurov to discuss the purchase of 400 sets of school furniture (1 desk with 2 chairs) for a middle school in Rushon in the Badakshan Region of Afghanistan.  Badakshan is a mountainous region in northeast Afghanistan that borders the Badakshan Region of Tajikistan.  The region is particularily underdeveloped so the provision of this furniture will have a great impact on the 800 students studying at the school.

 

On 19 January 2006 Koofab director Asadulah Habib Koofi and Art Echo director Azam Valikhodzhaev signed a contract for $46,500 for the provision of 400 sets of school furniture.  Doro and Koofab are now preparing a partnership agreement for future school rehabilitation projects in Afghanistan.  Participation in the Rebuild Afghanistan Exhibition was an excellent investment for Doro.  They have found an additional market for their furniture and have formed a partnership with an Afghan company.  They are also helping Afghan children prepare for the future by providing furniture that will significantly improve the conditions in Afghan schools.