Bags Rahatbeck Usnalkoev.
Bags Rahatbeck Usnalkoev.
When, it would seem, it would not have to wait for help, a snog comes from an unexpected side. It so happened that this guy was chained to bed without the possibility to work. Wife left, and the children and old mother had to somehow provide. One day he tried to make a bag with his own hands - and it was this that saved the situation. It turned out that the man has a real talent!
Things made by Rahatbeck Usnalkoev.
Up to an accident 33-year-old Rakhatbeck Usnkozhev From Kyrgyzstan never engaged in leather craft. He was engaged in breeding livestock, and this occupation took away all the time and brought the income of his family: they had two girls with his wife, son, and Rakhatbeck's mother lived with them.
In 2010, during the grazing of Rakhatbeck fell, and before someone managed to come to his aid, he spent quite a long time in a lying position. Doctors, unfortunately, could not fully restore the health of the man, and he remained disabled with 1 group, without having to go. It was impossible to engage on the breeding of livestock, being chained to the wheelchair, which means the source of wealth, which allowed to provide a family, did not. For Rakhatbeck it was a serious blow.
Two years after an accident from Rakhatbek, a wife was gone, children stayed with her father. Now, all worries around the house and lay on small girls and the elderly woman. "To stop the tears of the mother and take care of the children, I took myself in my hands," says Rakhatbeck. Since the legs refused, the man decided to try making money with his hands. He began to make various things, trying to one thing, then another, and first of time these items were sold for quite modest money, providing family only products for products.
Case for mobile phone.
Rakhatbek Usnalkoev with his children.
Leather handmade bags.
"Later I sewed a bag for the mother. It turned out that I had a talent for it," Rakhatbeck recalls. Then he decided to make several bags - beautiful, of leather, close, very high quality. But the question remained how to sell them, when there is no opportunity to stand in the market, nor find new buyers in their native village. At about the same time, a festival was held in his native At-Bashinsky district, where Rakhatbeck brought his goods. And here on his bags, many paid attention.
Now Rakhatbeck's bags are sold not only in native Kyrgyzstan, but also abroad.
Now Rahatbek makes the skin not only bags, but covers for mobile phones, wallets, belts, quirt (whip) and other elements of equestrian equipment. Kyrgyz sells his goods for the amount from 600 to 15 thousand soms (approximately 10 - 200 US dollars), and its main clients, mainly ethnic Kyrgyz from China, however, today Rakhatbeck product can already be found around the world.
Leather products.
Bag sewn by Rahatbeck Usnalkoev.
Rakhatbeck still hopes that one day he can walk again. Doctors still can not come to an agreement: someone says that there is no hope, others that it is possible to try to make another step, and then again Rahatbek gets on his feet. In the meantime, a man is trying to provide his family and give his children a worthy future.
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