Meeting the people benefiting from your support
I write this blog sitting in comfort on the verandah of our hut at the back of Agonda beach in Goa. Lorna and I have come here following a trip to Afghanistan where it was… [Read More]
John and Lorna Norgrove write about the development of the Foundation and its work, shedding light on the stories behind the headlines.
We also hear from women who work for the Foundation in Afghanistan or who have benefitted from the Foundation's work. These blogs direct from Afghanistan give real insight into the people you are helping to support.
Passing the half million milestone
I have excuses for irregular blogging. Now that Lorna and I are doing the day to day running of the Foundation, the peaks and troughs in the workload are that much greater and we’ve been… [Read More]
Kabul past, present and future
Zainab contrasts her mother’s stories of Kabul with how life is now.
Where is my home?
Zainab describes the added difficulties of adapting to another culture for those who have returned to Afghanistan from Iran. Being raised in one culture and trying to adapt to another culture after 25 years is… [Read More]
Power of positive thinking
The Candadian Women for Women in Afghanistan conference provided John Norgrove with much food for thought.
What will future hold for Afghanistan when troops leave?
One of the drawbacks of working for a charity working in Afghanistan is that one is assumed to have some idea of how things will turn out when western troops scale down next year. Well,… [Read More]
Looking for a model charity to follow
Running a charity isn’t all doling out funds, nodding and smiling and being congratulated on being a good egg.
Don’t ask us to focus only on desperate situations
In January we delivered a new marimba, a large instrument costing more than £2,000 and bearing a passing resemblance to a xylophone, to the Afghan National Music Institute in Kabul. The story was reported in… [Read More]
Sleepless in Kabul
Margaret Orwig, who is working with the Foundation in Afghanistan, describes life in Kabul. Waking up to your bedroom windows blowing out from an explosion at 6am is, to put it mildly, a very un-relaxing… [Read More]
Travelling miles to help: taking Linda Norgrove’s journey full circle
Zulfia is from Kabul studying for her Masters at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy in Erfurt, Germany. Her interest is in human rights and gender issues, especially issues relating to women and children… [Read More]