Since July 2021, the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan has dramatically escalated. More than 1,000 civilians have been killed in the past month, according to UN estimates, and 400,000 people have been forced from their homes since January. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans are at risk of displacement and death.
This rapidly unfolding humanitarian emergency has put women, children, activists, and journalists at great risk of targeting by the Taliban. It has also made it even more difficult for families to access food, stay safe during natural disasters, and prevent the spread of COVID-19. Each of the projects below will support relief efforts in Afghanistan led by GlobalGiving’s vetted nonprofit partners. Please donate to one of the vetted community-led projects below to help people in Afghanistan during this crisis.
Afghanistan Humanitarian Relief Projects by GlobalGiving’s Vetted Partners
Millions of resilient and full-of-potential Afghan children deserve hope, joy, and laughter for a brighter future. Since 2002, MMCC has brought joy, learning, and laughter to their lives, offering educational entertainment and psychosocial support as challenges grow. Though many donors and NGOs have moved on, we remain dedicated to our mission. Join us in bringing laughter, fun, food, and hope to Afghanistan's children, helping them envision a future filled with possibility and light.
Since August 2021, the Taliban banned education for girls above 6th grade in Afghanistan. This put a stop to school projects in the region led by Sahar. Instead of giving up on the girls of the region, we have embraced new ways of working with local teachers and organizations to improve equity for girls in Afghanistan through multiple programs in partnership with local organizations. Current programs focus on literacy, computer skills, English, women's empowerment, sewing, and coding!
We have been working to improve the lives of orphaned, abandoned and underserved children in Afghanistan since 2010. We started with a locally managed food security program (greenhouse and chicken farm) that helped hundreds of orphaned children find loving foster homes simply because they came with food. In 2020, we launched a home-based poultry program for war widows and we opened a vocational school for orphaned girls. Despite great challenges, all programs are active today!
Please note we had to say goodbye to our Mobile Libraries and are now embarking on a new online education program for Afghan girls. Any funds raised from this project will go towards supporting that initiative. Please feel free to transfer your support to our new project page, "Imagining Tomorrow: Afghan Girls' Education".
URGENT - help needed for Herat earthquake victims! Poor Afghans in Afghanistan are particularly vulnerable in times of disaster, whether natural or economic. Those without jobs, food or homes face starvation in harsh winter weather or after other natural disasters or following displacement. In recent years, there have been landslides, earthquakes and flooding incidents where we have been able to provide help.
Since 2021 there are more than 20000 Afghan Refugees migrated to Pakistan to get refugee status or to be relocated to any safe country, with the support of UNHCR. However, they all remain stranded in Islamabad & other cities of Pakistan without any support from the world community. They require medical care, food, shelter, child and mother health support . CHCS has initiated a comprehensive support plan for them and conducted regular medical camps and distributed food and clothing among them.
MADRE is increasing resources to our Afghan Women and Girls' Survival Fund to support the urgent protection and relocation needs of women human rights defenders, as many activists and human rights defenders are unable to leave conflict areas throughout Afghanistan. MADRE's Fund provides resources for urgent needs, legal aid, security assistance, emergency transport, and safe passage, as well as funding families willing to house activists at great personal risk.
This project will help victims of systematic attacks on the basis of gender, race & religion and populations at risk of famine, drought and natural disasters . Due to school terror attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan, we will provide assistance to the families of victims and scholarships to the traumatized students. We will provide support to the internally displaced, vulnerable families and journalists with cash assistance for food, shelter and basic necessities.
Given the situation of women and girls under the reign of the Taliban and the traumatic experiences during the journey to Turkey, this project strives for providing a comprehensive protection mechanism for the Afghan women and girls in order to meet their basic needs and support their well-being. Within this context, the project has three major components: provision of female hygiene kit and basic emergency kit; legal counselling and assistance; psychosocial support.
Action for Development (AfD) plans to establish a hybrid-financed primary health care facility in Kabul, Afghanistan, to ensure affordable quality services to a population of 50,000. This project enables the establishment of a facility (Phase 1) that can then be sustained in the long-term (Phase 2) by user-fees and a small annual donation of USD $7,500.
The project objective is to support unaccompanied minors and separated children who have fled from Syria, Afghanistan, Iran, Somalia, Ukraine etc. and seek asylum in Turkiye. The relief action will respond to urgent protection and psychosocial needs via in-kind assistance. ASAM will facilitate the provision of clothing, shoes, food, hygiene materials, recreational materials, stationary and toys. Through this support, it is expected to prevent the intensification of the needs and vulnerabilities.
Nearly 40 years of conflict have left Afghanistan with a deadly legacy of landmines and explosives that have killed and injured tens of thousands of people. Also because of the situation, Afghans are particularly vulnerable in times of disaster when floods or earthquakes strike. HALO's work plays a crucial role in stabilizing communities in Afghanistan by clearing explosives and responding in times of natural disaster.
The humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan is unfolding, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced in their own country. This humanitarian emergency is exacerbating an existing food crisis. 20 million people in Afghanistan are facing food shortages, including millions of children who are at risk of malnutrition. We will expand our long-standing programming and provide food, water, hygiene kits, and counseling support. A gift will enable us to support relief efforts like this around the world.
Afghanistan is currently experiencing one of the fastest-growing humanitarian crises in the world on top of a decades-long protracted humanitarian crisis. Three years after the Taliban became the de facto authority of Afghanistan, millions of Afghans are enduring one of the world's most severe and complex humanitarian crises. Families are trapped in cycles of poverty, displacement and despair.
Forty years of war and insecurity, chronic poverty, repeated droughts and the COVID-19 pandemic had already had a devastating impact on the people of Afghanistan. Now, more than three years on from the Taliban takeover, for many millions of families, the humanitarian emergency shows little sign of abating. We are raising funds to deliver vital emergency relief and wider development support to families in some of the most remote, underserved areas of the country.
The United Nations estimates that approximately 550,780 people across Afghanistan are currently displaced and without shelter, food and water. Therefore, Hagar will focus on providing 4 key relief activities for 13,000 people over the coming months: (1) food provisions for vulnerable families; (2) providing a mobile clinic & healthcare; (3) shelter for displaced children; (4) safe spaces where children can continue to play and attend school.
The devastating floods in Afghanistan on July 15, 2024, have severely impacted Teach for Afghanistan (TAO) placement areas in Nangarhar province, destroying homes of our students, our alumni, our fellows, fellow coach and our partner schools, affecting hundreds of students and staff. TAO is raising $60,000 for relief efforts to support education continuity. TAO's regional team conducted door-to-door assessment and found out damages to 102 students, 6 partner schools and 10 team members.
This project will supply immediate short-term food relief for displaced families fleeing advancing radicalized troops in Afghanistan. Gifts up to $50 USD will be matched 50% until September 17th! It costs $40 to feed a family for 1 week, but with this match $50 will feed almost 2 families (net $75 after the match). Donate now!
GlobalGiving believes organizations that are deeply rooted in local communities are often in the best position to provide long-term support in a humanitarian crisis. By funding the relief efforts of locally driven organizations, your donations have the potential to build stronger crisis-response capacity so that our nonprofit partners in the affected areas are better equipped for the future. Read more about our approachhere. Featured photo of a displaced child courtesy of the Associated Press.
WARNING: Javascript is currently disabled or is not available in your browser. GlobalGiving makes extensive use of Javascript and will not function properly with Javascript disabled. Please enable Javascript and refresh this page.
