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| Center
for Women and Street Children - Kabul |
| Established
January 2003 Kabul |
| Target participants: |
vulnerable women and
children who are begging or working on the streets |
| Target area: |
Kabul |
| Beneficiaries for 2005: |
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| Funded
by: |
British Embassy and Embassy of Japan |
Providing an integrated service to vulnerable
women and children such as skills development, literacy,
health education on general health and specific issues
such as drug awareness, counselling on issues i
ncluding
domestic violence and sexual abuse, informal education
for children in order to reintegrate them into schools,
health education, vocational training
for adolescent boys and girls. This project is based on
the original Center for Street Children and Women that
AWEC operated in Peshawar from 1998-2004) |
This is a picture of carpentry group boys during their theoretical examination, CWSC, Kabul |
CWSC tailoring group students
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| Widows
Support Project |
| Established April 2003 |
| Target participants: |
widows in Kabul |
| Target area: |
Kabul |
| Beneficiaries: |
120 |
| Funded by: |
WRI – Widows Rights International |
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Young widow with her drawing called: "Woman- subject of domestic violence"
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This project is focused on increasing support, literacy, health education and skills development for women
- Access of participants to health and welfare
- An ongoing support group for women
- Training in small business
- Referral to micro- finance loan provider
- Access to vocational training run through the Center for Women and Street Children
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This widow is dreaming about having a house...
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Widows at Art workshop, CWSC Kabul |
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| Afghanistan
Primary Education Program (APEP) - Kabul and Paktya |
| Established January 2004 |
| Target participants: |
vulnerable women and children begging
or working on the streets |
| Target area: |
Kabul and Paktya |
| Beneficiaries for 2003: |
10,000 children in Kabul
10,000 children in Paktya |
| Funded by: |
CAII- USAID |
- Radio based training for teachers in new methods of Accelerated
Learning for children
- Accelerated Learning program for 10 000 students in each
province, aged from 10 to 15 involving as much girls as
possible
- Commuity mobilization, survey and forming of community
educational committees in provinces
- Cooperation with MOE
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Mothers at Educational Suras meeting, Kabul province |
Accelerated Learning class in Kalakan, Kabul |
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| Women's
Political Participation, Awareness and Support Project,
Mazar-e-Sharif |
| Established April 2004 |
| Target participants: |
vulnerable women and women of the
area |
| Target area: |
Mazar-e-Sharif |
| Beneficiaries: |
125 women in literacy classes
600 women in Peace Education workshops
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| Funded
by: |
WOMANKIND |
- Ongoing literacy classes for women
- Health and counseling services
- Linking suitable women into Small business Development
training (through CEFE model)
- Peace education workshops and peace discussion group
ongoing in Mazar
- Creating a drop- in center for learning and discussion
for women in surrounding community
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| Support
for Women in Kabul detention centre |
| Established April 2004 |
| Target participants: |
Women- prisoners in Kabul detention
centre |
| Target area: |
Wolayat Kabul |
| Beneficiaries for 2003: |
Approximately 55 women and 38 children |
| Funded by: |
UNODC |
Women prisoners in art workshop
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- Providing the social workers to assist women and facilitate their re- entry in society
- Support groups and art activities to women kept in prison
- Vocational training and literacy
- Work with prison staff and other agencies to ensure quality of care and better management
- Supporting of children of women who does not reside in the prison with their mothers
- Developing of proposal for halfway house based on the needs of women exiting prison
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| Street
and Working Children Centers, Kabul |
| Established November 2003 |
| Target participants: |
working children |
| Target area: |
Khair Khana and Dan-e Bargh, Kabul |
| Beneficiaries: |
300 children |
| Funded by: |
SC-UK through ECHO |
Set up and operate 2 resource centres in
Kabul. the centres will conduct street based outreach work
to protect the rights of the working children engaged in
exploitative and hazardous activities through the provision
of development opportunities for child workers and their
families. The centres will provide opportunities for working
children and through them their families, giving them access
to education, vocational skills training, life skills training,
psycho social support, small scale start up business funds
and to have opportunities to develop as productive and
respected citizens.
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Working and Street children in Khair Khona
children centre, Kabul |
Duch ISAF support for Working and Street Children
in Baraki centre, Kabul
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| Women's
Community Participation, Awareness Raising and Support
- Paktya |
| Established January 2004 |
| Target participants: |
vulnerable women and women in general |
| Target area: |
Ahmad Abad district, Paktya |
| Beneficiaries: |
800 women
40 men |
| Funded by: |
IOM |
AWEC director and Women's Shuras members in man's Gathering in a mosque,
Paktya province. |
- Creation of women's shura
- Vocational training and literacy program to vulnerable
women
- Peace education workshops to women in district as well
as male shuras
- Psycho-social support to women
Read an external evaluation of this project
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| S.W.K.
High School and Women's Center, Islamabad |
| Established 1991, for Islamabad |
| Target participants: |
Afghan refugee children and women |
| Target area: |
Islamabad |
| Beneficiaries: |
300 Students
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| Funded
by: |
Self sufficient |
| Shahid Wali Khan (S.W.K.) junior and high school
for Afghan Refugees Women's center in Islamabad as well as
women's center. Provision of ongoing vocational training
for graduates of high schools as well as literacy classes and
other programs for women. |
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