Most of our projects are delivered by Afghan charities or by our Afghan staff and volunteers.
Every little helps
Every little helps. That’s what we’ve found in more than 15 years of supporting numerous individuals and organisations, where we can see the results and you can be sure that your donations are being put to good use.
On this page you can see just how your money is spent, month by month.
2026
This gives a snapshot of the projects we have supported so far in 2026, many of which are delivered by Afghan NGOs.
January
£11,126 paid for 20 Midwifery internships via the Afghan Midwives Association – 10 in Kabul and 10 in Wardak province. Professional training for midwives is still allowed under the current Taliban regulations.
Our support for the CHEERing Mother and Baby Clinic in Herat continued with LNF providing £3,600 per month to provide essential support to 130 malnourished children and their siblings, 28 pregnant women, and eight extremely vulnerable families.
We have already committed to support the clinic over the next three years.
£3,622 funded surgeries for babies and children at the City Medical Complex, a private clinic in Kabul. Financial aid is provided to families who cannot afford the costs involved with treatment at the public hospitals in Kabul. Patients are selected and treated at the private medical complex by a female paediatric surgeon.
We supported Orphans Friend Charity Foundation to provide 300 winter coats to children in the Sheikh Ali district, located in the west of Parwan Province, at a cost £2,610.
£1,430 pays for 24 students to start face-to-face English language training at the Kaaj English Language Institute in Kabul. After requests from our former scholarship students in Afghanistan, LNF has signed agreements with three language centres in Kabul to help improve their English language skills. A good level of English is essential for any woman applying for a scholarship abroad.
February
£2,416 paid for eight industrial sewing machines, an overlocking machine, tables, chairs, and tailoring equipment to help set up a sewing workshop run by women in Ghazni province.
56 female students in Afghanistan already enrolled on the online medical degree with the Canadian Virtual Medical University were supplied with laptops, at a cost of £7,224 (£129 per laptop).
£247 supported former LNF scholarship student, Fatima, to travel to Iran to complete her medical studies.
£15,743 provided additional funding to ensure the continuation of the food aid parcels organised through our long-standing partner Gawharshad High School.
We supported a local charity, The Rural Movement Organisation, with £19,708 to build 50 solar porches on the south-facing walls of homes headed by women living in poverty in Bamyan province.
£922 paid for nine former LNF scholarship students to start English classes at the Atarud English Academy in Kabul. These classes provide both educational opportunities and a safe space for young women to come together.
March
We helped provide 65 young girls from poor backgrounds with educational scholarships to Gawharshad School. £9,127 covers their tuition fees, textbooks, stationery, and a school uniform
We funded a range of work by Niro-e-Pamir, based in Fayzabad, Badakhshan province. £7,288 supported midwives in the remote, rural areas of the province and provided information to pregnant women on safe births, with the aim of reducing maternal and infant mortality rates. A further £4,328 provided heaters and fuel to the girls’ orphanage in Fayzabad and blankets and vitamins to the women’s rehab centre.
CodeWeekend received £7,414 to run computer programming classes for 50 women over six months, which will hopefully lead to full-time employment opportunities.
Life changing surgery
We have been funding medical operations for women and children from all parts of Afghanistan for more than 10 years.
This month we provided £22,711 to support La Châine de l’Espoir, who run the French Children’s Hospital in Kabul, to carry out 30 surgeries for women and girls.
A further £8,730 will support the Shewaki Primary Health Care Clinic to provide maternal care services for a year.
£10,768 paid for six months of vocational training in Kandahar for 50 young women who were taught either tailoring or baking skills, alongside basic maths and literacy, by LEFAO.
£6,053 to Nutrition and Education International for a mushroom-growing project, supporting 50 young women to start a micro-business from home.
£15,348 paid for more food aid parcels, distributed by Gawharshad High School.
April
LNF have supported HealthProm for the past five years to provide emergency transportation for women in labour and maternal health support services in Balkh province. £30,000 will be the first of three payments over the next three years to ensure that these lifesaving projects remain sustainable.
Pule Charkhi Kindergarten received £7,620 from us to look after 120 poor and vulnerable children for the next 12 months. The funding pays for food, fuel, office supplies, toys and the salaries of two teachers.
Support for visually impaired children
We funded £12,765 to Serve Afghanistan.
This will help to support blind and partially-sighted children to access mainstream education and also enable them to buy a new Braille printer.
Ms. Noori, a young woman who has set up an online school, called Voice of Hope, in Kabul received £2,773 to pay for five teachers and support 10 of the most in need students with monthly internet support.
A pilot project to provide online education and support for 25 girls in Grades 7-12, run by Gawharshad School, received £13,427.
May
The Zahra Breshna School provides education for 180 children from internally displaced people camps. We gave £14,080 to pay for teachers’ salaries, uniforms, and school equipment for the next 12 months.
The Kabul English Language Centre received £1,562 to pay for in person English language classes for 14 former LNF scholarship students.
£932 pays for classroom equipment and new carpets for two classrooms used by visually impaired students as part of the Serve Afghanistan project.
2025
January
£14,382 paid for six months of vocational training in Kabul for 75 young women. They were taught either sewing or baking skills, alongside basic maths and literacy, by LEFAO. When the women found that children at a nearby school were struggling to afford uniforms, they bought fabric in the school colours, measured the children, and sewed uniforms for 40 students – 20 boys and 20 girls.
£530 paid for three teachers and educational supplies to support students in the north of Ghazni province over the winter months, when local children couldn’t get to school in the city due to icy conditions.
March
£5,640 paid for an online computer programming course through CodeWeekend to support 30 women, including five former LNF scholarship students who were part way through a computer science degree, to improve their skills and, we hope, gain online employment.
The Kegdai Mobile School in Bamyan province was awarded £4,467 to provide tent-based schooling. This is essential for reaching children of nomadic families, and children in remote locations where traditional schools do not exist.
April
We helped reduce maternal and infant mortality by spending £10,480 on emergency transportation for women in labour in the remote Kaldar region of Balkh province, with partners HealthProm.
£12,767 to La Chanîe de l’Espoir paid for 19 life-changing surgeries for women and children at the French Medical Institute for Mothers and Children in Kabul. Read more about our longstanding support for this service.
We continue to support Serve Afghanistan, and £5,796 enabled blind and partially sighted students to access mainstream education through Braille, audio, and large print resources.
May
£3,604 helped Aschiana to run computer classes for more than 100 girls by covering the cost of the teachers’ salaries, internet, and tech support to maintain the computers.
We supported UK-based organisation, Daanish, by providing £641 so that two young women in Afghanistan could access English classes and pay for their online tests.
An initial payment of £13,468 will support a pilot project with LEFAO. Women and children attending public hospitals in Kabul will be supported to cover the costs of diagnostic tests and basic medication, which poor families can’t afford and desperately need.
£10,476 buys 80 laptops to support female students in Afghanistan enrolled on the online medical degree with the Canadian Virtual Medical University.
The Afghan Midwives Association, who had struggled since due to cuts to USAID, received £10,156 to run internships to upskill 18 midwives in Logar Province.
£1,000 will pay for essential surgical equipment for a children’s hospital in Kabul.
June
£10,355 provided funding for HandinHand to support 80 women for a year to start micro-businesses in Kunduz province.
We gave £8,159 to the AMU Language Centre in Herat to enable 50 young women to attend online English classes and sit their TOEFL English language exam.
July
£381 paid for three large tents so that young children at a primary school in Balkh can shelter from the sun during lessons. The project was organised by teachers at the school and local supporters in the province.
£3,866 allowed the establishment of the Tasneem project where a network of women meets weekly with European health specialists online. The project aims to equip the women with techniques to protect and improve their own mental health, as well as supporting their families and others whom they mentor.
£10,229 paid for vocational training in Kandahar, run by LEFAO. This is the third cohort of 50 women to attend tailoring and baking classes in the city and has provided a lifeline to these women living in one of the most rigid societies in the world.
The Mini Mobile Children’s Circus continue to spread its messages of joy and inclusion, overseeing 32 youth groups across 13 provinces. £6,365 funded four-day circus festivals in Kabul & Herat, plus 10 one-day festivals in the provinces, for both boys and girls.
August
£3,689 funded surgeries for children whose parents or guardians could not afford treatment at the public hospitals in Kabul. Patients are selected and treated at a private medical complex by a trusted partner, a female public hospital paediatric surgeon.
The CHEERing Clinic in Herat received the first of the increased monthly payments to run its mother and baby clinic for the next three years. £50,000 per year will provide advice and medical support to pregnant women, plus vaccinations and nutritional supplements in a community where babies are literally starving.
The Flying Wings Online School in Kabul received £7,477 to upskill 20 teachers to provide online education for 100 teenage girls currently excluded from in-person schooling.
£665 supported an LNF medical student who was unable to travel to Scotland in 2024 having just given birth, to take up a scholarship place at Hefei University in China to study for a degree in Computer Science and Technology.
September
Following the devastating earthquake in Kunar, we provided £6,000 of emergency humanitarian aid to assist Glasgow Afghan United to provide tents, blankets, food and cooking equipment.
£14,978 pays for the fifth round of vocational training in tailoring and bakery in Kabul for 75 women, organised by LEAFO.
La Chaîne de l’Espoir received £17,827 for the second round of surgeries for women and children at the FMIC in Kabul. Although expensive compared with other hospitals, this hospital has the facilities and skilled staff to undertake more complex surgeries.
£44,120 was sent to Afghanistan in response to the earthquake in Kunar. This money ensured that LEAFO could coordinate two female medical teams to travel to the affected areas with equipment and medicines to provide vital lifesaving treatment to women and children.
LNF helped three former LNF scholarship students in Afghanistan take up fully funded scholarship places at universities in China and Kazakhstan by paying towards travel and visa expenses. Total cost £2,042.
October
The winter aid programme restarted with Gawharshad High School receiving an initial £14,273 to distribute 240 food parcels. We have committed to fund a minimum of 960 food parcels to households in Kabul where women are the main breadwinner. This is expected to help more than 5,760 women and children during the winter months.
£11,718 pays for Nutrition and Education International to distribute 250 food aid parcels to Afghan families in Herat province who have been forcibly returned from Iran. Many now find themselves unemployed and homeless, living in makeshift shelters in public parks.
Over the next few months, LNF has also committed to fund the distribution of 200 winter stoves in Kabul and a further 100 winter stoves to families in Daikundi province.
2024
January
Two hundred families headed by women, received stoves and firewood for the cold winter months – 100 in Parwan and Maidan Wardak provinces and 100 in the internally displaced people camps in Kabul – costing £23,400. This was delivered via our partners Liberty Equality Fraternity Afghanistan Organisation (LEFAO).
Cold weather clothes parcels, each containing enough jumpers, shawls, gloves, hats, socks, shoes and boots to support a family of six, were given to families in Nangarhar province at a cost of £9,880 via the Agency for Rehabilitation Assistance & Development of Afghanistan (ARADA).
£1,960 to The Sweater Project provided paid work for women knitters to make 100 sweaters, subsequently gifted to children in Herat who lost their homes and most of their belongings in earthquakes in 2023.
£2,350 via Helping Orphans paid for 200 winter jackets and 150 pairs of shoes, which were distributed to orphans and children from poor families in the Siagerd district of Parwan Province (right).
Our former LNF Scholarship student medics were given a year’s access to the online medical training platform, Lecturio, at a cost of £2,975, allowing them to continue to learn from home.
£5,058 paid for eight of our female students who had recently graduated to complete their practical training in hospitals.
February
£41,513 provided emergency aid parcels containing essential food and hygiene items to 900 families (4,500 women and children) in Kabul. These were distributed by volunteers from Gawharshad School.
£10,669 paid for water pipelines to two schools in Bamyan province. The 3.5km of pipes will give nearly 700 students fresh drinking water. This work was delivered by our longstanding partner, Habibullah Noori.
March
For the fifth year running, we spent £5,447 to give blind and partially sighted students (right) access to mainstream education through Braille, MP3, and large print resources via our partners Serve Afghanistan.
Fifty young girls from poor backgrounds were given scholarships to Gawharshad private school; £6,486 covered their tuition fees, books, stationery and a school uniform.
April
Maternal and infant mortality rates were cut by spending £10,480 on emergency transportation for women in labour in the remote Kaldar region of Balkh province, with partners HealthProm.
May
£12,767 paid for La Chaine de l’Espoir to provide 19 life-changing surgeries for women and children at the French Medical Institute in Kabul. Read about some of the women and children who have benefited from this.
£13,454 went to Aschiana to run a school for 60 children in the Arzan Qimat internally displaced people camp in Kabul. The children get a hot meal every day (above) and are helped to reach the educational level that allows them to enter mainstream education.
Building on links with the mother and baby clinic in Herat, £5,744 will provide English, computing and first aid classes to more than 60 young women over the next six months.
Following flash floods in the north of Afghanistan, £4,000 was provided in match funding to Glasgow Afghan United who will coordinate the provision of emergency aid to those who have lost their homes and belongings in Baghlan province.
£10,564 will cover six months of vocational training in Kabul for 50 young women, who will be taught either tailoring or baking skills by LEFAO.
June
Strengthen Agriculture, Livelihood, Environment and Hygiene Organisation (SALEHO) were provided with £5,324 to support three libraries in Fayzabad, Badakhshan – in a community centre, a women’s market, and a women’s prison.
Each of the students travelling to Scotland received a payment of approximately £230 so that they had money on them for the journey from Afghanistan to Islamabad.
July
The now firmly established CHEERingAF Mother and Baby Clinic in Herat is funded for a further 12 months, receiving £25,107 to provide medical support to pregnant women together with vaccinations and nutritional supplements for badly malnourished babies.
£10,016 ensures that the vocational training run by LEFAO for 40 young women in the very conservative city of Kandahar will continue, with women learning tailoring and embroidery skills alongside basic literacy and health classes.
August
£15,172 will cover tuition fees, practical training and accommodation for 40 young women studying midwifery at the Shefa Institute in Fayzabad. The midwifery course takes three years to complete and costs approximately £1,000 per student for the full course.
The Mini Mobile Circus for Children received £5,854 to fund regional circus festivals in the provinces, including the National Juggling Festival for Girls in Herat.
September
The Pul-e-Chakhi Kindergarten received £15,462 to pay for essential building improvements and running costs for the next 12 months. The project will be overseen by LEFAO.
£12,404 paid for La Chaîne de l’Espoir to provide another round of surgeries for women and children at the French Medical Institute in Kabul.
£8,973 funded a new project, run in partnership with the French NGO Nayestane and the Afghanistan fashion brand Zarif Design, to provide a year’s training in traditional sewing and embroidery for 33 young women. All profits from the sale of items will be reinvested in the project.
£38,209 enables the CURE Hospital in Kabul to provide six practical hospital residencies and 12 internships for women who have completed their medical degrees but have not been issued with their final certification.
October
£13,718 to provide emergency food aid to 240 female-led families, distributed by Gawharshad High School.
£15,135 allowed LEFAO to distribute stoves and firewood to families in the mountainous Parwan and Maidan Wardak provinces.
November
Working with Shakila Ataie from Helping Orphans, £6,864 ensures that 400 pairs of winter boots and 400 coats are given to children in Parwan Province.
The Linda Norgrove Foundation continues to support Afghan Aid with their Big Pledge campaign, which sees donations quadrupled. A pledge from LNF of £5,000 results in an additional £20,000 being sent to worthwhile projects in Afghanistan.
2023
January
£58,367 paid for the distribution of 1,081 food parcels to desperately poor families headed by women. Most were delivered by staff of the Gawharshad High School, working as volunteers. The other charities involved were Glasgow Afghan United, Afghanistan Green Future Organisation, and Aseel.
£1,010 enabled Orphans Friends Charity Foundation to buy and distribute 150 pairs of shoes to orphans and poor children in Parwan province.
February
£27,560 to enable Afghan charity LEFAO to distribute 200 heating stoves and wood fuel to families headed by women both in Kabul and the rural Salang province. Some were keeping warm by burning discarded plastic bottles in an open fire. All were enabled to better withstand the freezing Afghan winter.
£8,334 to continue the inspiring work of the CheeringAF maternal health clinic in Herat, run by three female volunteers from the local hospital. The clinic supports pre-natal and post-natal mothers as well as providing supplements to semi-starved infants. Read more about this work.
£8,500 provided vocational training to 40 young women in sewing, embroidery, and the making and selling of confectionery. Afghan charity LEFAO gave the necessary equipment to successful students at the end of the course.
March
£4,957 continued our support to Serve Afghanistan who help visually impaired students, allowing them to access mainstream education by producing Braille textbooks for students and giving teacher training as required.
£6,675 provided 50 student scholarships at Gawharshad High School in Kabul, covering the cost of tuition fees, uniforms, textbooks, and stationery packs for primary aged girls from poor backgrounds.
£33,804 for the LNF scholarship students’ living allowances, paid digitally through a mobile phone app, with 136 students each receiving $300 (£240). This will be their final payment now that it is clear universities will not reopen for women anytime soon. We are investigating several alternatives as to how we can continue to help them now that their Afghan education has been halted.
April
£10,720 to HealthProm to provide emergency transport for women in labour in the remote Kaldar region of Balkh province. This has been proven to have reduced maternal and infant deaths since LNF first funded this project in 2020, with only one maternal death in 2022 as opposed to an average of 16 previously.
May
£17,623 allowed our long-standing supporter, Habibulla Noori, to improve two schools in a remote district of Bamyan province. Solar panels, computers, printers, and stationery have been provided for both. Drinking water has been piped more than 6km from the nearest spring to the Sare Bolaq school.
£12,000 to La Chaine de l’Espoir to provide life-changing surgeries for eight mothers and 17 girls at the French Medical Institute in Kabul. Funding also covers the cost of transportation, accommodation during recovery, healthcare advice and follow-up appointments. Read more about the women and children who have benefited from this.
June
£10,356 allowed Italian charity Nove Onlus to refurbish two bakeries, staff them with women bakers and then supply 50 families with their daily bread for four months – 30,000 loaves in total – before continuing as a going concern.
£10,932 paid for the first round of our ‘direct giving’ trial project. We have identified 25 women who are heading families who we’ll fund for six months at $90 a month. For many it will be a welcome respite from crushing poverty. We hope some will be able to use this opportunity to improve their circumstances in the longer term.
August
£24,818 to CHEERing to enable the mother and baby clinic in Herat to operate for a further 12 months with a wider remit. Read more about the mother and baby clinic.
£8,560 supported LEAFO to run a further six months of vocational training in sewing, tailoring and confectionery in Kabul. Forty women from the internally displaced people camps were selected for the training.
£8,585 paid for volunteers from Gawharshad High School to purchase and install solar panels, batteries and lights for 40 households, headed by women living off-grid on the outskirts of Kabul.
September
£13,002 to La Chaine de l’Espoir for an additional nine mothers and ten girls to travel to Kabul to receive life-changing surgeries and the necessary aftercare at the French Medical Institute in Kabul. Read about some of the mothers and children.
£8,532 enabled LEAFO to expand their vocational training programme to Kandahar, where 50 young women from internally displaced people camps will take sewing and tailoring classes.
£8,428 for longstanding partner the Mobile Mini Circus for Children to run a four-day circus festival in Herat for 172 girls, a four-day festival in Kabul for 101 boys, and 10 one-day festivals in the provinces.
£5,737 covers the tuition fees and lodging for 20 female midwifery students studying at the Shefa Institute in Faizabad.
£33,821 to the CURE Hospital in Kabul for the costs associated with five medical residencies to train female graduate doctors to a non-specialised hospital doctor standard, two undergraduate practical training scholarships, and a successful mobile clinic staffed by volunteer doctors from the hospital.
October
£13,435 paid for emergency aid packages to 100 families in Herat following three devastating earthquakes in the area. Staff from Gawharshad High School work with local organisations to deliver blankets, pressure cookers, gas cylinders, crockery, cutlery and food packages.
£858 enabled Orphan Friends Charity Foundation to pay for 150 pairs of shoes and distribute these to orphans and children from poor families living in Parwan Province.
2022
January
£4,000 to the online Afghan Children’s Songbook, making traditional Afghan children’s songs available free to teachers and families across the country.
£3,500 was donated to Afghan Aid’s rural development projects via the ‘Big Give Christmas Challenge Campaign’ where every £1 donated was quadrupled.
£19,960 for our scholarship students‘ living allowances for the autumn semester of 2021, to pay for their accommodation, food, transport and books. This is essential now that the students have lost nearly all opportunity of part-time work.
£62,050 delivered more than 1,400 food and hygiene parcels to poor families headed by women.
£93,295 paid to six universities and colleges for 2021 fees for 110 medical, dentistry, midwifery and nursing scholarships. This payment was due last year but was held up by the failure of the banking system.
£18,563 covered the cost of three rounds of the distribution of stoves and fuel by volunteers from Gawharshad High School to 180 vulnerable women who are the breadwinners for their families, both in Kabul and rural Bamyan province. Read more about this project.
£8,500 to the Scottish charity Glasgow Afghan United funding two rounds of food parcel distributions (above) in January and April, to 240 families in the Kunduz and Baghlan Provinces, where the charity has good local contacts.
£9,188 pays the 2021 fees for 35 scholarships at Gawharshad University, for women studying law, economics, business and computer science.
£1,588 enabled Orphans Friends Charity Foundation to buy coats for more than 200 orphans and poor children in Parwan province.
February
£795 enabled Orphans Friends Charity Foundation to distribute new shoes to more than 200 children in Parwan province.
March
£5,982 continued our support to Serve Afghanistan who help visually-impaired students, allowing them to access mainstream primary to higher education by producing educational materials in Braille, MP3 and large print.
£9,900 funded the charity HealthProm, providing emergency transport for women in labour in the remote Kaldar region of Balkh province in the north of Afghanistan.
April
£6,100 provided 50 student scholarships at the private Gawharshad High School, covering the cost of fees, stationery, uniforms and books for primary-aged girls from poor backgrounds.
£3,300 provides funding for Afghan charity LEFAO to support children who had been working on the street into school. Twenty children started school and are receiving additional vocational training – plumbing and wiring for the boys and embroidery for the girls.
May
£14,481 to help launch a free telemedicine service for Afghans. The money covered upgrading the security and accessibility of their IT systems and funding three female doctors in Kabul – two gynaecologists and a paediatrician – to provide remote consultations to women and children.
June
£33,360 for another round of scholarship students’ living allowances – we pay two rounds every year.
£16,000 to Afghan charity Aschiana to run two schools in camps for internally displaced people in Kabul for those who have been fled their homes, usually because of heavy fighting.
£8,500 allowed the Italian charity NoveOnlus to run a mobile health clinic for a year, providing free health care in deprived areas. The doctors see around 55 patients a day, of whom 75% are women and children.
July
£15,300 pays for surgery for 15 children and 12 mothers at the French Children’s Hospital in Kabul. Read more about this project.
September
£24,100 to the CURE hospital in Kabul funded four women doctors’ residencies, each of which lasts for three years, and also the running costs of two mobile clinics in camps for internally displaced persons by volunteering CURE doctors and staff.
£4,400 pays for a mother and baby clinic in Herat run by a volunteer hospital doctor and midwife.
£7,200 paid a group of Afghan refugees in France, previously academics, to support Afghan women running informal teaching centres for secondary aged girls throughout Afghanistan.
£1,800 provided the final element of funding allowing Business for a Better Society to build a women’s centre in the Wakhan Valley.
October
£8,900 funded our partner, volunteer staff from the Gawharshad private school in Kabul, to give 200 primary school girls support packages including uniforms, satchels, books and stationery
November/December
£10,000 towards a project run by Hand in Hand providing funding, mentoring and support, for 300 women in Balkh province starting small businesses.
£1,300 provided six prizes for the best academic performances of our sponsored university students.
£41,200 living allowances of $600 a year for all our 148 scholarship students.
£144,670 university fees for 2022.
£3,060 annual subscription for the Lecturio online resource for the medical students.
£91,270 funded the Afghan Children’s Circus’s programme of festivals across the provinces, totally funded by a matching grant from the VITOL Foundation. The Children’s Circus is registered in Denmark where the banking restrictions are very tight, and accounts summarily closed if any funds go to Afghanistan. Funding through the Foundation avoided this.
2021
December
£101,300 due to be paid to universities and colleges for 2021 scholarship fees when bank transfers restart.
£23,000 due to pay to our students a living allowance for the Autumn 2021 semester.
November
In partnership with small Afghan charity AGFO, we started a programme of distributing food and hygiene parcels to women heading families in camps for internally displaced persons. We have committed to paying £2,200 a week, potentially reaching £15,400 this year. Read more about the families supported by this programme.
October
£9,730 funded three residencies for female doctors training at the CURE hospital in Kabul. Each residency lasts for three years at a cost of £4,490 per year. We fund two and part-fund one in conjunction with a US doctor.
£251 paid Shahida’s fees to study medicine for a semester in Kandahar.
July
£10,004 paid for Eid gifts and contributions towards internet costs for online classes for our 163 scholarship students.
June
£5,000 towards relief efforts organised by Serve Afghanistan to help families who fled their homes during intense fighting in Laghman province.
£4,924 allows two schools in Bamyan province to install additional security to boundary walls and provides a drinking water supply for one of the schools.
£5,054 enables the Afghan Children’s Circus to stage their annual circus festival which, Covid-19 restrictions allowing, comprises a series of performances and competitions in circus skills across the country.
May
£6,990 allows Afghan charity AGFO to help 20 women from a disadvantaged area to start street trading businesses in their local neighbourhoods, something usually done by men,
£6,485 to French charity Afghanistan Libre to open and run a midwifery clinic in a marginal area outside Kabul.
£7,000 to UK charity Concern‘s ‘Ration Challenge’ in which volunteers raised money by limiting their eating to a refugee camp daily allowance for a week. Our money doubled what they raised and funded the AWARE programme which helps women to start and run very small businesses in rural areas in the northern provinces.
£17,460 to the French Children’s Hospital in Kabul to carry out 15 surgeries for children, 17 treatments and surgeries for women from refugee camps, and to distribute 200 hygiene kits to families within the camps.
March
£6,485 enabled Italian charity Nove Onlus to convert a minibus for wheelchair access, extending the capacity of the Pink Shuttle bus service.
£8,000 enablesAschiana, an Afghan charity, to equip, open and run a basic school for a year for 50 children within a refugee camp in Kabul.
February
£2,392 pays for practical training for the medical students we sponsor in the CURE hospital in Kabul.
January
£4,415 allows Serve Afghanistan to continue their programme of producing Braille books, allowing blind children to access local schools.