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Improving Afghanistan’s Rural Economies

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:47:32 +0000

Afghan-American Hamed Wardak has been instrumental in generating employment opportunities for Afghans. As a way of generating production in agriculture and to strengthen rural economies, USAID has financed a project which “provides animal husbandry training and goat and chicken distribution to women in need of assistance.” Since in general the Afghan culture means that only the men own livestock, “community leaders and local authorities worked with USAID to select the most vulnerable beneficiaries to participate in the project.” Now some of these women are being trained in animal husbandry and given their own livestock to start their own business and pull them and their families out of poverty. It is the USAID’s Integrated Livestock, Beekeeping, and Poultry Assistance Project which is truly helping many families get back on their feet by “providing sustainable livelihoods for families living along strategic provincial roads.”

UN Refugee Agency’s Work in Afghanistan

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:37:22 +0000

Hamed Wardak makes generous donations to the U.S. Association for the U.N. Refugee Agency in an effort to assist some of Afghanistan’s most vulnerable citizens. The organization is currently looking for additional financial aid to back emergency situations including this year’s project, the “voluntary return and reintegration of Afghan refugees and internally displaced persons back to their home country.” This organization has helped over five million Afghans return home which makes it “the largest voluntary repatriation organized by UNHCR in the last 10 years.” In addition, over 1.4 million Afghans benefitted from the UNHCR’s 9,000 water program “in high or potential return areas as well as those hit by drought.” In addition to this work, the organization “is trying to conduct confidence-building measures to promote peaceful inter-ethnic co-existence.” All of these efforts are great news for those working towards a better Afghanistan.