By Katrien Hertog | Project Director
Dear supporters,
We would like to thank you for the continuous support for the children, youth, families and communities in Lebanon!
Recently IAHV has intensely focused on providing similar psychosocial support, healing and empowerment to Afghans around the world and in Afghanistan to cope with the most recent events and gain energy to contribute towards the betterment of Afghanistan.
Throughout decades of conflict and war and exacerbated by the most recent events, many people from Afghanistan suffer from anxiety, depression, sleeping problems and PTSD, a loss of hope and feelings of anger. At the same time, they carry great inner resources of resilience, hope and solidarity.
Our intense team focus on Afghanistan in combination with the prolonged crisis in Lebanon, which has now also forced our core volunteers to leave the country, has led to the decision to put our work in Lebanon on hold for now. We will temporarily put our reporting on hold till we will again have the opportunity to continue and build on our work in Lebanon.
In the meantime, from Afghan participants of IAHV's online workshops:
“For the last two weeks since being evacuated, every night I was having nightmares that some person was trying to kill me. After the first day of the workshop, that night I did not have any of those nightmares anymore.”
"Feeling very peaceful. Before the session there was tiredness and sadness, but now feeling very relaxed and very peaceful, and even feeling my whole outlook is brighter about myself and about life. Now I have discovered this positive and hopeful outlook and optimism for the future and the continuity of life."
"Just 5 days before I tried to suicide, because the situation is extremely hard, and it is the worst situation that ever happened in my life. I came to the workshop to ask help for evacuation, because I feel abandoned and left behind in Afghanistan. I feel my life is in danger. No one here knows about their future, no one knows what will happen to them. This workshop has given me a lot of techniques to decrease the tension and stress. Currently I'm relaxed and even though I had a busy day I feel energetic. Thank you for teaching me what I currently need the most. I would also want to be a mentor, and to help others get rid of stress this way. "
If you want to support our ongoing efforts for Afghans, kindly look up our GlobalGiving project “Hope, Resilience and Empowerment for Afghans” by International Association for Human Values (IAHV) Belgium by the start of 2022.
More info here:
Afghanistan - IAHV Peacebuilding (iahv-peace.org)
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