Afghan Women and Girl's Survival Fund

by MADRE, An International Women's Human Rights Org.

Project Report | Apr 6, 2022
Resourcing Urgent Needs for Afghan Women and Girls

By MADRE | MADRE

Since the Taliban takeover, MADRE has accelerated financial aid to meet the urgent needs of local women's organizations and activists in Afghanistan through grants that resource the work of women leaders to sustain their communities and build peace. With your support, MADRE’s rapid response grants have continued to enable Afghan women leaders and local organizations to provide vital humanitarian aid to meet the immediate needs of Afghan communities and mobilize security, protection, and relocation efforts.

In addition to resourcing urgent relief work, MADRE has provided for the housing and living expenses of over 600 displaced women human rights defenders in Kabul and in rural provinces, many of whom are the primary breadwinners and heads of household. MADRE is further funding stipends for partner organizations' staff, such as individuals running shelters and safehouses, who have been working without a salary for several months.

Lastly, MADRE also funded a local organization to employ two female psychotherapists to provide 100 women activists in Kabul with secure individual and/or group counseling. As an activist shared, “This program really helped me and I was able to fight the hardships and problems of relocation in a great spirit and in the right way.” Another young woman stated, “In the future, I have plans to solve life's problems and serve my people in every possible way, as well as to be a useful person in this society. Thank you for the support enabling us to get back our energies and to keep going on.”

This financial and psychosocial support ensures that women leaders are able to meet their own and their families’ needs, which in turn allows them to re-engage in their work for a peaceful and gender-just Afghan society.

With your generous donations, MADRE will continue to support women and girls during the ongoing crisis and enable the continuity of Afghan women's organizations, including underground and in exile.

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Dec 20, 2021
Supporting Urgent Relief Efforts in Afghanistan

By MADRE | MADRE

Since the Taliban takeover, MADRE has accelerated funding to local women's organizations and activists in Afghanistan to provide grants that resource the work of women leaders to sustain their communities and build peace. With your generous donation through GlobalGiving, MADRE is proud to report that we’ve already disbursed over $500,000 through our Afghan Women and Girl’s Survival Fund in support of Afghan women and girl activists, human rights defenders and their families experiencing conflict, economic disparity and drought, reaching nearly 6,500 Afghans at-risk—both in-country and as refugees.

For example, to alleviate the dire humanitarian crisis in rural areas and in the capital city of Kabul, MADRE resourced local women activists and networks to provide over 2,000 women and their family members with access to life-saving aid like fuel, medical care, clothing, food, and water. MADRE has funded similar relief efforts for over 3,000 Afghan women, girl and transgender refugees across the border in Pakistan.

MADRE’s Afghan Women and Girl’s Survival Fund has further supported recent relocation, shelter and safe passage efforts that prioritize support to at-risk groups such as LGBTIQ people and those from ethnic minorities. Over the past four months, we’ve been able to ensure the safety of over 1,000 women and girl human rights defenders/activists and their families–both inside and outside of Afghanistan–through resourcing visas and asylum, legal aid, emergency transport as well as funding families willing to house activists at great personal risk.We have further resourced the living expenses for over 600 displaced women human rights defenders in Afghanistan, who are also teachers, midwives and primary breadwinners, so that they can continue their activism and enhance their economic activities.

Thank you for standing with MADRE and our Afghan partners– we could not do this life-saving work without you!

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