AFGHANISTAN


Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs)

 

AHERO - "AHERO is a non-governmental, non-political, and non-ethnic charity organization. The organization since its inception has worked in the fields of health, education, and socio-economic rehabilitation. This organization has helped Afghans lead a reasonable life. AHERO has conducted free medical camps in various refugee villages and has operated Basic Health Units in various far flung areas of Afghanistan. The organization has donated food, blankets, clothing and books, has conducted professional training for various work skills. The social rehabilitation process includes, anti-narcotic workshops."

Peace Through Education - "The mission of Peace Through Education project is to promote respect for human rights, as well as ethnic, class and gender equity by enhancing educational programs inside Afghanistan. PTE provides incentives and opportunities for educational participation in rural areas, enhances the roll of schools as village centers for a cultural and educational renaissance in post-Taliban Afghanistan."

ICRC Afghanistan - "The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance."

DACAAR - "The Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees, DACAAR, is a humanitarian non-governmental organisation which supports sustainable economic and social recovery in selected project areas in Afghanistan as well as the lasting return of refugees and internally displaced people."
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Humanitarian Information Centre for Afghanistan - UN sponsored  "Project Management Information System Project (ProMIS),  initiated in 1997 to enhanced the capacity of UN agencies, NGO's and the donor community to undertake analysis and planning for operational and emergency activities."

PARSA in Kabul (Physiotherapy and rehabilitation Support for Afghanistan) - Arizona based small NGO headed by Mary MacMakin involved in "working directly with needy people of Kabul, Afghanistan, particularly widows, who are on the streets begging, and those who have "fallen through the cracks" of the survey nets of the big NGOs."

Afghan Humanitarian Rehabilitation Development Organization - ".. a [Toronto based]  leading non-governmental, non-partisan and non-profit organization providing useful resources to the people living in the remote areas of war torn Afghanistan"

International Medical Corps: Afghanistan - The IMC is working in Afghanistan since 1984.

Islamic Relief: Afghanistan - Appeals, press releases, videos, and donations.

Afghan Refugee Relief Partnership - Arizona based organization in partnership with other organization helping the Afghan refugees

 The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan - A member-based non-governmental organization working with assistance programs within health, education and rural development sectors in rural parts of Afghanistan.