Save Afghan Women & Children with Health Care

Covid-19 created significant challenge for all our healthcare providers in 2020. The fixed clinics continued with all aspects of patient care with strict sanitation and social distancing, referring the Covid cases to the government hospital. The 14 health posts in villages cared for people in their community.

In the year, there were 231,000 patients and 172,000 health education participants. Over 26,000 children were assessed for nutritional status and 1,944 treated for malnutrition.

"There are many people who has no access to a health clinic, so their children suffer from malnutrition because of ignorance. AIL Community Health Worker posts find such children in the villages and refer them to the clinic. The children receive food and nutrition health messages till they get fine. We give them consultations on how to serve healthy food as well."  (Nutrition Section staff member)

When women know how to take care of their health, are healthy and have children who are well nourished, those women are more productive in their family unit and community. They are more likely to prioritize education of their daughters and seek education and skills training for themselves.

Women’s empowerment, education and health are all connected!

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AIL ‘s health clinics have been a vital resource for people, especially during the pandemic when some other sites closed. The clinics were a source of information on the virus and provided the usual health services as other centers and hospitals dealt with the Covid-19 patients.

Reproductive health services are important at all the clinics. Through August, 10,414 women were helped including 150 babies born at the clinics, 6,353 women had contraceptives provided.  The Herat clinics run 14 Community Health Worker posts which provided contraceptives to 2,439 women, recorded 13 village births and performed 401 ANC and 65 PNC home visits.

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Our projects 1155 Fast Track Education and 1073 Healthcare are eligible for the Safer World Fund 50% on donations right now!