Project Report
| Oct 10, 2011
Children's Garden planning continues
By Rick Montgomery | Executive Director
We’re currently making plans to add a children’s garden to the Light of Pamir Children’s Home. The humanitarian we support, Janagah Jaheed, has found a one acre lot that is available for only a few hundred dollars a month, just blocks away from the home. It’s important to note Baharak is an extremely fertile part of Afghanistan. The area is actually famous for its apples and pears.
Unlike the other children’s gardens we’re planting around the world, the importance of this garden is not related to the nutrition it brings but – instead – the experience our children can have while they’re working in the garden. This garden will belong to them and it will help them to heal from what they’ve seen in the outside world. These are children who have lost their parents to war. Helping a plant to germinate and then sprout is solace for the soul!
With proper support, we are hoping to break ground on our Children’s Garden before the winter’s snows set in.
![Share on Twitter]()
![Share on Facebook]()
Jul 7, 2011
Clothing and Children's Gardens underway to benefit the orphans in Baharak
By Jayme Armstrong | Projects Manager
![Aid boxes awaiting shipment to Afghanistan]()
Aid boxes awaiting shipment to Afghanistan
We have decided to launch a children’s garden in Badakhshan near the Light of Pamir children’s home. The garden will give needy local children a secondary, safe place to play and receive a food education. Additionally, this garden project will directly address two of our key targets in the Light of Pamir project:adequate nutrition for the orphans and supporting sustainability for the home by generating food for use onsite.
We are working with our local partner Janagha Jaheed to lease land for the garden – just a short walk from the home. We will install a video camera so that our donors can watch our children working in the garden. The camera will be managed by a security guard who will also serve and the garden’s caretaker and protect it from all threats.
The shipment of children's clothing and books has reached Kabul thanks to the support of the Denton program which provided shipping of this humanitarian aid for the children in Baharak. The US Air Force will take the pallets of donated aid up to Badakhshan in July. We've posted here a photo of some of the boxes and the Valley Catholic students who collected the aid after hearing of the needs in Northern Afghanistan.
Global Roots fund raising continues in order to help generate adequate operating funds for the home.
Links:
![Share on Twitter]()
![Share on Facebook]()
Feb 22, 2011
Light of Pamir Report #1
By Patrick Firouzian | Senior Project Manager and Board Member
We are pleased to announce that Janagha Jaheed, the humanitarian we support in Northern Afghanistan, received Global Roots’ funds in November to lease a home for orphaned and abandoned children in the Badakhshan city of Baharak. The funds arrived just before the winter season’s first cold spell.
We are now raising funds for the annual running costs of the home.
Thanks to a major clothing drive at a high school in Beaverton Oregon, we are also ready to ship 2 tons of clothing and one ton of children’s books to Janagha. Transportation will be provided by the US Air Force.
We will send a Global Roots volunteer to review the project and offer support to Janagha’s caregivers this spring. Other Afghan communities have started to contact us to learn how they can create their own children’s home.
Funds raised for the project in 2010: 22K
Funds raised so far in 2011: 8K.
Remaining funds to be raised for running costs: 187K.
Please read Global Roots' Patrick Firouzian's report on the Light of Pamir and its efforts to nurture Baharak's orphaned and abandoned children.
Links:
Attachments:
![Share on Twitter]()
![Share on Facebook]()
