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Women for Women International
mobilizes women to change their lives by bringing a
holistic approach to addressing the unique needs of
women in conflict and post-conflict environments. They
begin by working with women who may have lost everything
in conflict and often have nowhere else to turn.
Participation in the one-year program launches women on
a journey from victim to survivor to active citizen.
They identify services to support graduates of the
program as the women continue to strive for greater
social, economic and political participation in their
communities.
Heifer International's mission is to work with
communities to end hunger and poverty and to care for
the earth.
Heifer's strategy is to “pass on the gift.” As people
share their animals’ offspring with others – along with
their knowledge, resources, and skills – an expanding
network of hope, dignity, and self-reliance is created
that reaches around the globe.
Since autumn 2001,
UNICEF has worked in
partnership with the Afghan Transitional Authority
(previously the Afghan Interim Administration) and other
relief agencies to provide humanitarian aid, help
re-build the country’s schools, tackle malnutrition and
immunize children against preventable diseases.
Catholic Relief Services is currently in the
second phase of its programming in Afghanistan,
rehabilitation. Rehabilitation consists of helping
people to rebuild their homes, farms and basic
livelihoods. This is accomplished through cash-for-work
programs that allow participants to earn money by
rebuilding long neglected and war damaged infrastructure
such as irrigation canals and roads. CRS is also helping
people to resettle in their communities and rebuild
their houses.
SERRV International works with thousands of
small-scale artisans and farmers in Africa, Asia, Latin
America and other developing regions of the world by
marketing their handcrafts and agricultural products.
Through its work with 90 community-based organizations
in 34 countries, SERRV creates economic opportunity so
these producers can support their families.
Help Afghan
Women. Afghan women deserve a leadership role in
post-Taliban Afghanistan.
PARSA
is a small, non-government organization (NGO) 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. Its aim and goal are to find work
and/or develop skills so that these people can partly or
wholly support themselves and their families. It works
in a direct personal way to locate widows and to help
them.
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