Lithuanian female prisoners have started knitting
socks, gloves and scarves to help poor families in Afghanistan's
central Ghor province keep warm in winter, a prison official said
Wednesday.
"About 100 or one third of all prisoners -- all those who know
how to knit -- are knitting socks, gloves and scarves. They happily
joined this goodwill action," Edvardas Norvaisas, director of
Panevezys prison, told AFP.
Norvaisas said the campaign at the prison in northern Lithuania
would last for a few months.
Lithuanian troops will then take the hand-made clothing to
Afghanistan in autumn, when they begin their rotation as part of
the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.
Lithuania is leading a reconstruction team in Afghanistan's Ghor
province.