Summary
Through MADRE’s Afghan Women’s Survival Fund, you can help provide a young Afghan woman named Naseema whose life is at risk with the resources she needs to secure safe passage out of Afghanistan.
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Naseema chose to report her husband to the authorities for murder. Now, her life is in constant danger as her husband tries to track her down, and her only hope is to escape her home country of Afghanistan. MADRE created the Afghan Women’s Survival Fund to provide shelter, secret transport and other life-saving necessities to women like Naseema who are threatened for daring to speak out for their rights.
MADRE is activating the Afghan Women’s Survival Fund to send Naseema the emergency funds she needs to escape to safety and set up a new life for herself and her children that is free from violence.
Total Funding Received to Date: $555
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $25,445
Total Funding Goal: $26,000
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
The Fund enables Afghan women to safely relocate and resume their work for justice. Afghan women activists are empowered by the knowledge that they have somewhere to turn when threatened.
I knew that I could not be silent when I saw my husband kill a woman right in front of my eyes. But now I must leave Afghanistan because I am not safe here anymore.
- Naseema, Survival Fund participant
Irene Lew
Development Assistant
121 West 27th Street, #301
New York, NY 10001
United States
(212) 627-0444
Email:
MADRE, An International Women's Human Rights Org.
121 West 27th Street #301
New York,
NY
10001
United States
212.627.0444
http://www.MADRE.org
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This project is located in
Afghanistan
and can also be found under
Human Rights.
For more information about Afghanistan, read the Human Development Report on Afghanistan or the Wikipedia entry for Afghanistan.
This project was last updated on December 22, 2009.
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 6, 2009
By Vivian Stromberg - Executive Director, December 22, 2009 11:10 AM

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