What We Do
Women Empowerment
Refugee Aid is works across all sectors to support women and girls particularly in situations of displacement and crisis. Refugee Aid provides women and girls with financial inclusion, education, health care, protection, and livelihood opportunities. Refugee Aid also advocates for gender equality and women’s rights in humanitarian response to ensure that the needs and voices of women and girls are heard and respected. Refugee Aid believes that empowering women and girls is essential for building resilient and peaceful communities.
Protection
Refugee Aid is dedicated to protecting the rights and dignity of IDPs, Returnees, and vulnerable communities, particularly women and children. We provide them with legal assistance, psychosocial support, and access to essential services such as health care, education, and livelihoods. We also advocate for their inclusion and participation in the host communities and for durable solutions to their plight, such as voluntary repatriation, local integration, or resettlement. Protection is at the core of our humanitarian mission and we strive to uphold the principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, and independence in our work
Education
Refugee Aid aim is to increase the quality and access of education for individuals and communities in Afghanistan. We do this by:
• Building the capacities of teachers and school principals to deliver effective and inclusive education.
• Providing digital education, distance education, and education in emergencies to reach learners in remote and conflict-affected areas.
• Promoting literacy for adults, especially women and marginalized groups, to enhance their skills and opportunities.
• Aligning our education objectives with the Ministry of Education of Afghanistan and SDG 4, which seeks to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all.
Food Security
Refugee Aid’s goal is to help individuals and communities improve their agriculture system and food security, both directly and by increasing their family income. We also aim to protect the environment and natural resources from degradation and depletion. We do this by:
• Developing and extending improved varieties of crops, horticulture, forestation, and livestock that are resilient, productive, and adapted to local conditions.
• Strengthening livestock management practices that enhance animal health, welfare and productivity.
• Supporting communities to manage their natural resources sustainably and to cope with climate change and disasters.
• Establishing and improving irrigation systems that optimize water use and efficiency.
• Facilitating farmers to access local markets and to increase their income and livelihood opportunities.
Why Refugee Aid?
Afghanistan is one of the top IDP and refugee producers on this earth, forty years of civil war, natural disasters, effects of climate change, inter-tribal conflicts, and insecurities caused the plight of forced migration or internally displacements due to pushing and pulling factors. Statistics from reliable sources speak that 70% of Afghans live in multidimensional poverty, and migration surged gradually after an incident of August 15, 2021. Registered Afghan refugees and asylum-seekers; 2.4 million, 41% women, and 40% children. IDPs: 2.2 million, 49% women and girls, 58% children (reporting.unhcr.org).
Out of 12.9 million children in Afghanistan, 6.5 million are the most vulnerable including girls and boys classified by Afghanistan child protection action networks in 23 categories I.e. victims or GBV survivals (self-immolation, street working children, hazardous labor, street scavengers, children in conflicts with the law, drug-addicted children, orphans, mentally and physically retard, unaccompanied, separated children due to divorces, children suffering from various discriminations, neglected, exploited, abused, early and forced marriages, rape, sexual abuse, physical abuse, trafficking, smuggling, abduction/ kidnapping, child Marriage, children in conflict with the Law, Children Separated From Family, Drug Abused, Disability, recruited, Injured (MRM) in dire need of technical protection support, assistance, advocacy, response and prevention measures.
Therefore, we chose the unique name of REFUGEE AID to reflect our mission for a diverse target group focusing on women and children who urgently need our help. We believe that the REFUGEE AID professional team via initiatives of networking of triple nexus in action [humanitarian, peace, and development interventions] will contribute to bringing significant changes via multi-sectorial assistance, advocate to protect dignity, reduce sufferings of the above-mentioned people of concern in Afghanistan.
A further 5 million Afghans of various statuses remain in the Islamic Republics of Iran and Pakistan which requires joint efforts of the UN and many specialized NGOs to enter this sector and professionally advocate reduce effects of pushing and pulling factors and timely response to their needs, encourage durable solutions, advocate for dignified return and reintegration.
Our Optimistic Volunteer
Volunteer
Haroon Sofizadeh
Protection Assistant
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Noor Gul Haidari
Livelihood Assistant
Volunteer
Nazir Ahmad Tahiri
Education Assistant
Volunteer
Sebghatullah Sofizada
Logistic Assistant