Afghanistan

Provision of Health Services;

MHI provision of medical care and addressing broader health issues in Afghanistan are as follows;

Maternity Clinic: MHI has built and fully supports (with professional staff, equipment and medicines) a small maternity unit in the Pol-e-Charki, Kabul. This clinic is among the only sources of pre-natal and post-natal care for a wide area on the rural outskirts of Kabul and fills a gap in gynecological support available to mothers.

Clinic: MHI is running a static clinic in Jalalabad city of Nangarhar province to serve poor and needy people. The clinic supports the obstetrics and gynecology department of the local hospital. This project has been on-going for a number of years and it has served an estimated total of 45,000 beneficiaries. The aforementioned clinics are fully supplied and supported by Muslim Hands including but not limited to the following;
a) Free medicines
b) Free Oxygen
c) Free medical service

Psychosocial Support: MHI’s country office in Kabul provides psychosocial support to children who are mentally affected by the conflict.

Rehabilitation and Support for Disabled Persons;

Since 2005, MHI has been one of the sole care provider to disabled persons (due to the war or otherwise) by providing them various types of services such as ;

• Prosthetic assessment for disabled children;
• Assistance to war affected child victims by providing equipment and materials which includes; lumber support, olive oil and pomade massage, cervical collar, knee braces, support bandage, special chairs, table and frames, elbow and auxiliary crutches, walking sticks, and orthopedic shoes;
• Assistance to disabled people by providing wheelchairs.

WASH

Access to sufficient quantity and quality of clean drinking water is a major problem in Afghanistan. Not only is water scarce but in many cases it is also unclean and carries germs that result into water-borne diseases.

Therefore, Muslim Hands Afghanistan has dug wells complete with fabrication & installation of concrete rings / slabs for lining the well which protect wells from external pollutants. MHI also been installing long lasting durable hand pumps which benefit thousands in rural communities, and assist in increasing health standards among the general population. MHI has successfully installed 1000s of such water wells in different areas of Kabul, Parwan, Ghazni, Gardez, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Zabul, and northern areas.

Orphan Sponsorship Scheme

Muslim Hands’ One-to-One Orphan Sponsorship Scheme is by far one of the most locally recognized and appreciated ways of helping the most vulnerable population of Afghanistan. The Orphan Sponsorship Scheme is designed to assist orphans who have been matched with adoptive families (such as relatives or households nominated and entrusted by the community) and also to support the adoptive families in ensuring the well-being of the child. A portion of sponsorship money goes to the orphan and their guardians to help towards living expenses and enabling a child to receive an education, so that they are empowered to build for themselves a brighter future.

Muslim Hands International donors are currently supporting over 6,200 orphans in 21 of the world’s poorest countries. In Afghanistan there are 433 sponsored students who are getting AFs 2160 / $44- per month. The sponsorship money is spent on child’s education including School fees, clothing & footwear (including school uniform), books & stationery, travel costs, and meals.

Livelihood Support through Agriculture Inputs

MHI Afghanistan helps vulnerable people affected by the conflict and natural disaster to become self-reliant by giving them the resources (livestock, supplies, tools, etc.) and the skills by which to earn an income and simultaneously feed their families. MHI project is gender balanced and focuses on helping widows who have no formal source of income. The types of activities conducted under income generation projects includes the following;

Goat Farming: Under this component, hundreds of families receive food assistance and generate home based income. Under this project component, MHI provides small farm to each family which includes milking goats, goat kits, fodders, shelters and livestock vaccinations to each needy family in different locations of the country.

Poultry Farming: Under Poultry forming component, MHI supports widows, poor and needy people with a similar implementation mechanism as goat farming, by providing poultry, shelters, feed, training and supplies. MHI is implementing types of farming project with different funds including the Ministry of Agriculture Irrigation and Livestock in the country.

Farming Tools & Seeds: Muslim Hands introduced farming tools & seeds projects to assist in achieving sustainable livelihood in poor communities in the country. The projects still benefited hundreds of families with approximately thousands individuals in different locations in the country. The tools and seeds including Spade, Prong, Large Sickle, Ramba, Sulphur, Malathion, Powder duster, Angro (fertilizer), Dating tools, Shovel with handles, Saws, and seeds of Cucumber & Tomato are distributing to the considerable and concerned communities and families to improve the quality of village level farming at their locations.

Livelihood Support through Vocational Training

MH Afghanistan has supported widows and vulnerable women to earn by empowering her with vocational skills to support herself and her children at a time when poverty and unemployment are devastating the country. MH Afghanistan provided vocational training, sewing machines, cloth and other materials as well as linkages with earning opportunities.

Food Security

MH Afghanistan distributes one month food parcels amongst thousands of poor and food insecure familie Ahead of cultural or religious festivals. And also distributes Meat for needy families that host orphans, widows, and disabled persons, etc.),

Emergency relief

Since 2005, MHI has been providing emergency relief services in Afghanistan mostly in the form of food commodities to thousands of families over the country who have been affected by conflict and complex emergencies, including to the Kabul improvised refugee settlements, especially during the cold winter months when families incomes are most stressed.

Peace & Conflict Resolution

Since 2010, Muslim Hands Afghanistan is working for good governance, peacebuilding and conflict resolutions targeting remote locations in Afghanistan. In the past, operations were limited to providing humanitarian relief aid in conflict situations and protection as an international relief agency. But in recent years there has been a shift towards developmental and peace-building approaches such as advocacy and conflict resolution in Afghanistan.