Women for Afghan Women

[ArthurbellaScott]

I know women on here have asked how we might be able to help.

This organisation appear to still be working in Afghanistan, despite the efforts of the Taliban.

Several projects, including childcare for women in prison, dv support groups, humanitarian support.

https://womenforafghanwomen.org/what-we-do/

Thank you for this Arthur.

Thank you.

Thank you. Reading with interest.

Thank you

Thank you. They look to be an ethical organisation completely focused on the needs of women and girls.

It is extremely hard to find ways of making a concrete difference on the ground right now. I try to give money, but this seems not very effective.

As an aside, we could do much to keep Afghan women and girls in the public eye in the West. Not that I see the feminist activist organisations do much about it at all.

Sisters Uncut? The legacy organisations in the US?

Well, I understand your reservations, nepeta, but the programmes they are engaged in sound worthwhile. Anyway, I posted for info, it's of course up to anyone else whether they think it is an organisation worth supporting.

Thanks for posting this.

What an important job they’re doing. Interested to read that 80000 Afghan Refugees arrived in US between 2021/22. I wonder what proportion were women and girls. I hope we’ve done our bit and taken in many refugees - but what about the ones left behind who can’t get away? How can those brave women on the ground in Afghanistan help each other? I know there’s not much they are allowed to do at all.

This organisation seems predominantly a US concern - is there a UK equivalent that anyone knows of?

My post wasn't aimed at this organisation and I am, in fact, probably going with them in directing my contributions. It was more a general lament about how hard it is to affect change on the ground when women are not allowed to work there and international NGOs are limited as well.

Oh, I see! Sorry, misread it, nepeta. Yes, absolutely. Up until I read this organisation's projects I had thought there were no NGOs operating within Afghanistan. It seems this one has to be circumspect about what they share but are doing small, concrete things to help.

Try Linda Norgrove Foundation - although I think they are focussed on helping women who've left Afghanistan, rather than women still there.

https://lindanorgrovefoundation.org/

I'm wondering if there are any organisations operating in Pakistan who help Afghan female refugees. A lot of them fled there.

As an American, I feel intense frustration for what we did in that region for multiple reasons, but one of the most resounding is the total apathy we had not just for women, but also sexually trafficked boys. I know how stereotypical this will sound, but at this point I would love if we could just fucking arm women. Arm Iranian women, arm Afghan women, just get them some means to fucking shake things up, because a woman desperate enough to self-immolate (as many are) might as well be given the opportunity to fight for herself and her sisters.

Good call. I'd imagine UNHCR might be the people to check to begin with.