Disaster Response Afghanistan Project #1639

Emergency Aid for Afghan Families

by Afghan Institute of Learning

Project Report | Mar 5, 2014
Food Distributed to 200 Families!

By Alison Hendry | Program Administrator

Food Being Distributed

Hi everyone! AIL is off to a great start this year, with thousands of new students enrolling in our centers and dozens of workshops and seminars teaching Afghans how to live healthy lives. However, there are many Afghans who are barely surviving. AIL’s food distribution program, thanks to you, has helped to feed and clothe the poorest of Afghans during the harsh winter months.

Your donations have allowed AIL to distribute food packages to 200 Afghan families for nearly 1200 people in the month of February alone. These packages include cans of tomato paste, cooking oil, 10 pounds of rice, and 3 pounds of beans. This is enough food to help needy families supplement their diets for nearly a month.

All of us at CHI and AIL are very thankful for your continued support of our “Save Poor Afghan Families from Starving” program, and the beneficiaries of this food aid are most grateful. Over a thousand women, men and children will not go hungry tonight thanks to your dedication to our cause. Thank you!!

Children with the food they received

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Dec 5, 2013
Food Distributed in September

By Alison Hendry | Program Administrator

Nov 6, 2013
Thank you from AIL!

By Lucas VanAtta | Administrative Assistant

Dear GlobalGiving Donors,

Thank you so much for supporting the Afghan Institute of Learning’s (AIL) various projects on GlobalGiving. Over the years, the Global Giving donors have become invaluable to AIL. Through your generous support, AIL has been able to provide Afghans with education, health care, training and more.

It is your continued support that is now allowing AIL to evolve along with the young people of Afghanistan. We’d like to share with you the story of how one young woman’s life has been changed thanks to one of AIL’s programs:

I am a 19-year-old woman with two children. I had always wanted to go to school and learn to read, but there was not a school close to my home. It was not safe for me to try and travel to another village to go to school, but I always told myself that if I could go to school, I would be able to get a job and reach my goals.

It was painful to me when my brother learned to read and write, but I couldn’t. One day I watched some women and children who were going somewhere. When I saw that one of them was a woman who had an 8-year-old girl with her, I stopped her and said “Excuse me. Where are you going?” She answered, “A learning center has been established for illiterate women and their children recently. I am going to register myself and my children.”

When I heard this, I was so happy and I said to her, “Please wait a minute. I want to go with you and start to take classes too.” I joined them on their way to the learning center. When we arrived, I was so excited because I saw a lot of women there who had been learning.

Now, I can read and write and I can say proudly that I am literate. I have also learned to be healthy and to be a leader. I am reaching out and touching my wishes and goals. I thank AIL for this opportunity to reach my goals.

Thank you for the support that you give to AIL. We are so grateful to all of our supporters for their continued support of our projects on GlobalGiving. Thank you!

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