Afghan Assistance Project
Our partners in Tajikistan received requests for help from the Council of Afghan University Students and local municipalities to help with an existing and now rapidly growing Afghan refugee community in the country. We quickly started a project and gathered some resources to assist.
Afghan women and children are receiving support in health, education, and everyday necessities. An Afghan refugee woman shared her story after participating in a health seminar for women:
“My name is Gulizor*. I lost my mother when I was 11, my father married someone else, and I didn’t go to school. Because I was looking after my brothers and sisters who were left without parents, and there was no opportunity because the military conflicts did not stop. When I was 15, I was given in marriage. I endured emotional, spiritual, and physical abuse from my husband and his relatives. I now have four children. I am anaemic. I never went to the doctors. We have been here for six months now. This workshop was something new to me. First of all, the attention we received, I am shocked, I am accustomed to being devalued. But today was a great encouragement for me, the attitude was so warm, so family-like, something we do not have in principle. Thank you!”
We received a request for help from the director of the Centre for the Education of Afghan Children. The Centre has 300 children studying there and is severely under-resourced. We were able to provide some teaching equipment in the form of pens, pencils, and notebooks.
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Hope for Afghan Students
Our hope is that through providing physical necessities as well as psychological, social and academic support; hope, capacity and community will be restored and built in Afghan students in Tajikistan!
Support in Health, Education, and Everyday Necessities
Our partners in Tajikistan received requests for help from the Council of Afghan University Students and local municipalities to help with an existing and now rapidly growing Afghan refugee community in the country.
Simple Consultations are a Huge Help
As part of our Afghan Refugee Relief project, our partner organization is offering medical consultations through an expatriate doctor.
Help for Hakim
In the coming months Operation Mercy through the local NGO will support the family with food packages and medication.
Afghan Refugee Relief
Operation Mercy’s local partners are continuing to support communities in Tajikistan during the COVID 19 crisis. One team is focusing on the needs of Afghan refugees in the country.
“Now I feel I am not alone here…”
The Afghan Student Assistance Project, run by our partners in Tajikistan, is investing in future Afghan leaders by meeting immediate physical needs as well as longer term mental and emotional stressors facing afghan students from seven major universities across the capital city of Dushanbe.