Afghanistan

EMERGENCY AID AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN

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The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 has led to the collapse of an already dilapidated social and economic system... 25 million Afghans (60% of the Afghan population) are facing starvation. But life in Afghanistan is difficult for everyone. Basic food, petrol and gas prices have doubled. Electricity works for three hours a day in a country where winter temperatures reach -20°C...

Dr Belqis, our paediatrician correspondent in Kabul, treats 50 children and their mothers every day in her clinic. Most of the children suffering from malnutrition receive nutritional flours and our paediatrician also distributes many medicines against asthma (for lack of electricity and wood, the inhabitants of the cities burn tyres and plastic, causing asphyxiating pollution).

Goal

ALLEVIATE THE DISTRESS OF AFGHAN CHILDREN AND PROVIDE EDUCATION TO GIRLS AND BOYS IN AFGHANISTAN

We continue to support Dr Belqis Katil's clinic in Kabul.

Girls have access to school up to the end of primary school in our seven schools in the Panjshir Valley, despite a residual conflict situation. Since March 2022, girls' education has been interrupted in the high schools of the country, except in our school in Mazar-e Sharif where the number of students (girls and boys) has increased so much (students sitting in the corridors, in our kindergarten, etc.) that we are planning to build a new school on a 6,000 m2 plot of land close to the current school. The land has been donated by the current owners to the Department of Education in Mazar e Sharif, which has given its consent for the future construction.

Our programmes will be adapted to the current situation in Afghanistan.