By Celine Schimek | Fundraising
Dear donor,
we hope you are doing well and that you are defying the gray February!
As you certainly know, the situation for the Afghan population is still devastating. More than 28 million people - two thirds of the population - are in urgent need of humanitarian aid. According to the United Nations, four million people are acutely malnourished, including 3.2 million children under the age of 5. The unemployment rate is also one of the highest in the world and the job situation for women in particular is catastrophic due to massive restrictions on their rights. For this reason, it is still not clear how the "Training program for female jewellery smiths" project exactly will continue.
However, so that we do not become discouraged and give up in the face of the difficult situation, we would like to use this report to give you an overview of the developments in Afghanistan over the past year. Despite all the adversity, we were able to achieve a lot together!
WHAT HAS HAPPENED OVER THE PAST YEAR
The devastating earthquakes in Afghanistan in October destroyed over 10,000 homes - thousands of families in the affected region are currently living in tents or temporary shelters. Thanks to your generous donations, we will be able to build new homes for 58 families in Herat over the next few months! To this end, we are working with the local partner organization OHW (Organization for Human Welfare), which has been active in Afghanistan since 2007 and implements projects that support particularly vulnerable groups and people in need.
What has happened so far?
Our partners are currently identifying the families and people in the village where the construction will take place who are most in need of support - including women-headed households, people with disabilities and people with injuries - and are evaluating the construction options on site. Meetings are being held with the village communities to ensure that exactly the kind of support that the survivors want and need is provided.
We will of course keep you informed about the next steps and the construction. Once again, a big thank you to everyone whose donations are helping to provide safe homes for around 300 people in Herat!
Distribution of winter emergency aid
Thanks to your support for the winter emergency aid, we were able to reach 218 displaced families from Pakistan with food parcels, making their return to Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, during the cold winter months more bearable.
The food packages distributed by our Afghan partner organization OASE contain 50kg of flour, 24kg of rice, 10kg of beans, 5kg of pasta, 2kg of tomato paste, 1kg of tea, 7kg of sugar and 10l of oil. Each package supplies a family of five for around two months, meaning that 218 families, or around 1,090 people, will now be able to get through the next few weeks more safely. A thousand thanks to every single donation that has made this vital distribution possible!
Education projects
Despite the cold onset of winter, great progress has been made at the project schools:
These successes have only been possible thanks to you and your trust! A huge thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
If you would like to continue to support us, we would be very grateful if you could tell your family and friends about our work and the situation in Afghanistan.
All the best and see you soon,
Celine from Visions for Children
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