Drought. Economic collapse. Mass hunger. The denial of basic rights. Extreme unpredictability

This is Afghanistan in 2023.

But that's not all it is. There is hope & possibility too.

Despite the extreme difficulties of working in Afghanistan, we have continued to help children survive, whilst advocating for their right to recover and build a future.

Some of our Childhood Rescue programs were forced to stop in 2021. But your gifts adapted and found ways to help 384,046 children in the past six months alone.

In Afghanistan, a young boy smiles as he sits with his mother, eating from an emergency food supply bag.

Nutrition programs support children facing malnutrition.

Azizullah Hayat

37,302 children have benefitted from nutrition programs. Children who without this support were potentially facing death or problems in physical and mental development as a result of untreated malnutrition.

Hand in hand with nutrition is WASH - Water, Sanitation and Hygiene.

89,877 people have benefitted from WASH in the last six months.

WASH is all the things many of us take for granted including clean running water, soap, access to sanitary products, education on hygiene and toilets. Beyond the individual impact, WASH helps communities fight against water borne diseases and presents amazing opportunities for innovation and engineering.

In Afghanistan large solar panels point towards the sky in a desert area. Behind the solar panels in a solar powered water station.

This solar powered water station provides climate resistant water solutions for thousands of families and keeps children safe. Children no longer need to walk kilometers alone each day to fetch water.

Azizullah Hayat

In the last six months your gifts have assisted...

247,907 families access health services

298,650 adults received livelihoods recovery and support programs

142,470 families supported with food security distribution programs and cash vouchers

A World Vision staff member helps a patient laying on a bed in a health clinic

Health clinics provide life-saving services.

Azizullah Hayat

Health clinics provide life-saving services. Our programs have had to constantly adapt to the requirements set by the defacto government, but the team have amazingly managed to assist 247,907 patients, many children and mothers. The WV Afghan staff are dedicated in the most awe inspiring ways, working in complicated circumstances to ensure children can survive.

A cash voucher is fast becoming a humanitarian standard, especially in remote places.

A cash voucher is similar to a gift card.

It is...

  • Restricted
  • Can only be spent at approved stores
  • Registered to one person or family
  • Eliminates fraud or theft opportunities

Cash vouchers are more than fraud preventers, even better, they promote dignity and agency through giving people choice.

For people living in dangerous places, thier world fall apart in an instant and leaves them with nothig. The ability to go to a local store and choose thier own items for thier family makes a big emotional and psychological difference.

When you see cash voucher, your gifts are helping in more ways than one.

World Vision staff sit at a registration table ready to give out cash vouchers.

Food distributions and cash vouchers. Our staff pictured here are set up at a registration desk. This is the same desk 142,470 families stood at as they prepared to receive their assistance.

Azizullah Hayat

We believe in every child's right to build a future.

We're over-joyed that education and child protection programs have found safe ways to begin again.

83,664 children participated in education programs

11,128 children supported through child protection programs

In Afghanistan, two girls in head coverings sit on the floor in a classroom working in their notebooks. They each have a World Vision Afghanistan backpack.

Children study different subjects in community-based classes in urban areas of Herat province under. We continue to advocate for all Afghan girls and women to be educated. Currently, primary school aged girls are permitted to attend community-based education classes.

In Afghanistan, two boys laugh with one another. One boy covers his face with his hand and holds a lamb, the other has his hand on a sheep.

Young boys hide from the camera, but secretly loving the moment! They are benefitting daily from the solar-powered water network built in their village. They now have more time for education and play with access to a clean water source close by.

Photographer - Azizullah Hayat

Your gift has helped 384,046 Afghan children in the last six months.

In some of the world's most remote and complex places, your gift is helping get the impossible done.

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan is a primarily agricultural country in Central Asia, producing some of the world's best pomegranates, grapes and sweet melons. The country has been in an ongoing conflict since 2001, a radical political group has waged all out war against the government and taken control of many parts of the country.

In Afghanistan our projects focus on community building programmes. Their success relies heavily on collaboration with local community and faith leaders. Sensitively administered with respect for local culture and beliefs the programme currently facilitates community awareness sessions for men regarding child marriage and rights of women. We are also providing sessions for women and girls, to ensure they know their worth, feel safe in their community and understand their rights in relation to violence against women and child marriage.

  • Hundreds of thousands of innocent have been killed in the ongoing conflict, and cities have been left in ruins
  • The country experienced a devastating drought in 2019 which destroyed all the crops and 60% of the livestock in Western Afghanistan. The drought drove over 250,000 people from their homes to seek aid, but even the humanitarian camps they came to have run out of food by now. Many parents consider selling their daughters into early marriage to feed the family
One in three

Afghani girls are married before they turn 18.

More than 10%

of registered refugees in the world today are from Afghanistan

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