Help an Afghan Woman Escape to Safety

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. project reportread updates from the field

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

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.

Activities

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.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $555
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $25,445
Total Funding Goal: $26,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

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.

Project Message

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

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Irene Lew
Development Assistant
121 West 27th Street, #301
New York, NY 10001
United States
(212) 627-0444
Email:

Project Sponsor

MADRE

Organization

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

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in AfghanistanAfghanistan and can also be found under Human RightsHuman Rights.

For more information about Afghanistan, read the Human Development Report on Afghanistan or the Wikipedia entry for Afghanistan.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on December 22, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 6, 2009

Latest Update from the Field

Update on Naseema and her Family

By Vivian Stromberg - Executive Director, December 22, 2009 11:10 AM

Fantastic news! Thanks to the support we were able to raise through the Afghan Women's Survival Fund, Naseema and her three children are--right now--making their final preparations to escape Afghanistan. Naseema is frightened, but incredibly relieved to finally have the means to escape her murderous husband.

During these dangerous days, while Naseema’s husband is hunting for her, she and her children are being sheltered by our partners in Kabul. Your gift helped cover part of the costs of temporary emergency housing, transportation and passport fees for Naseema and the children.

Now we're working with our partners and two different United Nations agencies to get Naseema and her family resettled in Tajikistan. From there, they will apply for refugee status so they can be placed in another country.

But right now, the most important thing is for them to escape Afghanistan and the death threats of Naseema's husband. Thanks to you, that's happening.

I'll send you more information once we have it.

Thank you so much--you are giving Naseema the support she needs to save her life and protect her children.

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