From: Zuhra Dadgar-Shafiq <zshafiq.afd@gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: Picture
Date: August 8, 2019 at 2:36:28 PM GMT+2
To: external.relations@actfordev.org

 Dear Elena, 

Here are a few pictures of the coal distribution during winter. 
I will send you via whats up the story of Sunita and here is a short story that you can put on Winterization project at globalgiving, pls feel free to edit as you see fit. Best

Sunita, a 12 year old girl from the Afghanistan, living on the mountain which crosses the Kabul city. She works daily on the streets of Kabul. During her working days, she attends the school for street working children that we, Action for Development, created to raise interest of children who do not attend school, but also to educate them and pave the way for them to return and join the normal education system. Sunita is a kid who lives in miserable conditions, but at the same time she helps her sick father and siblings to survive these difficult days.  She shared her life experience with our project coordinator in Kabul.

« I only have my dad left, my mother died a few years ago after giving birth to my baby brother. She was sick for a while after delivery, and my dad sold his kidney to be able to pay for medicine and operation of my mother. However, my mother died leaving us alone.  My dad falls sick often due to poor health - and cannot work. I have five sisters and one three-year-old brother. I go on the streets to sell bags or some other items to earn some money, which is of course is not enough to feed all of us. My dad picks some paper and cardboard from the streets and that is how we heat up our bukhari (an Afghan heater) during winter »

In order to provide warmth when the winter comes, every year Action for Development distributes wood or coal to impoverished families, internally displaced, or women headed families.   This way we contribute to their well-being during winters. 

We thank every donor who helps us to provide heat for the most vulnerable in Afghanistan. Without your donations this project would have not been possible. 

 

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Zuhra Dadgar-Shafiq

Program Director (Co-Founder)
Action for Development
150 Route des Ferney
Grand-Saconnex, Geneve

z.dadgar-shafiq@actfordev.org 
+41 799425037