Help revive culture of community volunteerism

Report 2

Project Design and Implementation Background:

This is the second report of the project “Help Revive the Culture of Community Volunteerism”. The project was registered in the unprecedented times of coronavirus and despite being the most important project of the CPD in the GlobalGiving platform, unfortunately, it has not attracted attention of potential donors so far. During the challenging times of coronavirus and socio-political power shift in Afghanistan, we had been concerned of the future of our social development and empowerment programs and were regularly observing the situation. Unfortunately, the situation has not been improved yet in terms of sustainability of small and medium size nonprofit organizations. We hope that we will get the opportunity of benefiting generous support of individual and corporate donors worldwide in order to support the cause and serving the underprivileged and marginalized communities and population of Afghanistan.

The Way Forward:

Considering the current context of Afghanistan, our decision is to keep the project active and have the alternative of project amendment in need. CPD’s focus has shifted to ensure sustainability of nurtured organizational human resources and systems and established network of volunteers, who were effectively engaged in social development and empowerment programs for years. At the moment, CPD aims to support the institutional hub and community volunteers to the extent possible in order to smoothly reorganize it, once the socio-political situation gets improved.

We, the team CPD, are looking forward to your generous support during these critical times. Afghans suffer extreme financial problems due to severe shortfall in economic activities and financial restrictions enforced on Afghanistan by the international community. Financial restriction and freezing reserve funds of Afghanistan have directly affected the people and contributed to nation-wide food insecurity and paralyzing public service delivery throughout the country. All these have unfortunately deprioritized social change development programs including our project aimed at improving hygiene of Afghan street children in Kabul city. As we reported earlier, COVID-19 and insecurity incidents by IS-KP were also preventing implementation of social change programs; the latter is still a main threat. Please refer to our past reports for details. In such a scenario, priority comes to survive the organization and the minimum level of its operations until the situation gets improved. 

Taking all these challenges into account, CPD has prioritized supporting its team members and volunteers to overcome such unprecedented situation through cash aid, and distribution of food packages and COVID-19 prevention kits. We will continue this intervention until the problems get solved and it is not possible without your generosity to financially supporting our cause. 

Links:

• Official Facebook page of the CPD