Winter Appeal
Every year in winter thousands of homeless Afghans are huddling on the sides of freezing roads with little shelter and nothing to eat and nothing to keep warm.
Seasonal hardship is nothing new for Afghans, but a combination of factors is making this winter harder than usual to bear. This is getting harder for the number of poor orphans and women who have no one to support them.
Every year in winter heavy snowfall and rain that lashes the country leaves many poor children and their families dead. We are concerned the death toll this winter may climb due to COVID 19 crises. People in Afghanistan mainly work on the street to earn their daily food and shelter. But this winter even this is not possible because of the COVID19 lockdowns and restrictions.
Please take part and save at least one family from loosing their lives by purchasing a Winter package. Winter package of $100 includes warm clothing, shoes, blankets and food. We also supply families with enough heating materials like charcoal or wood to last them for two months of winter.
Education Breaks The Chains Of Poverty
Waiting For Their Education
We support families who will support their children going to school. We break the poverty traps that keep children off the streets. By supporting the mothers, they can support their children’s education.
In Kabul alone over 80,000 children live in poverty on the streets. They are the disadvantage young kids mostly Orphans who have responsibility to work hard and feed their families.
Sponsor A Child/Family
These children are someone’s child, yet they do not know the meaning of a ‘carefree childhood’, as they pick through rubbish each day for discarded clothing and plastic they can sell, and food scraps with their dirt ingrained hands.
In a country torn apart by conflict these children suffer ten fold as a result of their disability. They often experience among other things Indifference, Isolation , Discrimination, Abandonment.
Your direct sponsorship to one of these children of $50 a month will give HOPE and EDUCATION.
Orphans At Risk policy is not to encourage individual sponsorship except for these special children who survive against all odds with hope in their hearts. They are the ones in most need of personal sponsorship. If you wish to sponsor one of these children please email us for further details and discussion.
Projects to Empower Afghanistan Women
Support a Vulnerable Widow
Life for the children and women of Afghanistan can be extremely daunting. Progress has been uneven, benefitting mostly areas that are easier to reach. Afghans living in rural, remote areas or insecure districts are less likely to have access to basic services. For generations who have grown up in the midst of conflict, this has compounded people’s lack of access to — and knowledge about — education, healthcare, water and sanitation and their rights. Women and girls, in particular, continue to be an extremely vulnerable population.
The current situation of women in the country presents a serious challenge to human development. The women of Afghanistan are among the worst off in the world, both in comparison to Afghan men, and to women in most countries. Their situation is particularly poor in the areas of health, deprivation of rights, protection against violence, economic productivity, education and literacy, and public participation. The average Afghan woman has a life span of 44 years, around 20 years short of the global average.
According to latest UNICEF studies,
Regular Monthly Sponsorship – Child/Mother
– To sponsor a Child/Mother/Widow on a regular monthly basis $50 a month for one child.
– $55 a month for disabled child
– $100 a month for child/mother/ widow with at least five kids and mother
Food Packages For Winter
Each year Orphans At Risk, during the month of Ramadan and later on through our ‘Mid Winter Appeal’, asks our supporters and the public to contribute towards alleviating these children’s suffering by purchasing an Emergency Food Package at the cost of $100 per package. The package consists of food for a month to feed a family of five, some warm clothing, heating and medicals. The supply of these packages often mean the difference between life and death for these improvised families.
Orphans At Risk suggest that groups of friends, or families, could contribute towards purchasing one ‘package’. Your work colleagues may be interested in contributing either to the Ramadan Appeal or the Mid Winter Appeal.
Our Focus On upcoming Projects
Our Project manager Noor Ahmad delivering this project in Kabul and remote areas.
We are Digging Wells to access clean water
The water and sanitation crisis is a vast and complicated problem, impacting millions of Afghanistan people, mainly the poor. Even if they get access to some water they become sick because of poor sanitation and hygiene and worst of all because the water is contaminated and as a result of this people particularly children, get seriously sick. Most people simply don’t have a reliable source of water at all.
Almost 50% of improved drinking water sources are CONTAMINATED WITH FECAL MATTER (UNISEF)
Orphans At Risk has been working hard in supplying clean water with very reasonable cost. We would like to take this opportunity to thank those who supported us with this project. Please be part of this project and help us save many lives by supply these families with clean drinkable water.