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Help the Afghan Children Archives
Humanitarian Relief Missions
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Humanitarian Relief Missions:
2005
In continued partnership with AmeriCares and the Mennonite Central Committee, and through the support of our individual donors, we have been able to respond to the immediate needs of disadvantaged Afghanistan populations such as the poor and internally displaced persons:
Medicine and Medical Supplies: Medicine & medical supplies (up to 4 forty foot containers and an emergency air shipment) were distributed to the needy through HTAC Clinics, AHDS Clinics in Urozgan and Kandahar, several hospitals in Kabul, the Blood Bank, and other Ministry of Health outlets.
School Supplies: 2 forty foot containers containing backpacks and kits with school supplies were received and will be distributed to the Afghanistan students, including Afghan girls and boys in our sponsored schools.
Blankets and Apparel: In response to severe winter months at the beginning of the year, warm winter clothes were distributed to 1,094 families, while 11,800 pairs of wool socks were given out, in the communities where our sponsored schools are located and to the internally displaced people around Kabul in Afghanistan.
Gas Bukharies: The problem of Internally Afghanistan refugees has reached a crisis in and around Kabul. Afghanistan Families no longer have homes or livelihoods in their original districts and so have flooded Kabul in search of assistance and a way to get their lives back on track. In response to their lack of basic essentials, HTAC (with a grant from AmeriCares) purchased simple, multi-purpose Gas Bukharies that can be used as heaters, lamps, and cooking stoves. As a result, 820 families were provided with a bukharie in 6 different IDP refugee camps.
2004
In continued partnership with AmeriCares and the Mennonite Central Committee, and through the support of our charitable donors, we were able to provide much needed humanitarian support in the form of medicine, medical supplies, clothing, school supplies and basic hygiene materials to thousands of Afghanistan refugee families in 2004:
Medicine and Medical Supplies: Medicine & medical supplies (more than 3 forty foot containers) were distributed to the needy through HTAC Clinics, AHDS Clinics in Urozgan and Kandahar, several hospitals in Kabul, the Blood Bank, and other Ministry of Health outlets.
School Supplies: Over 4,000 school kits containing school supplies were distributed to the Afghanistan students in our sponsored schools.
Blankets and Apparel: Over 6,000 blankets, 8,500 boots, and numerous clothing items were distributed to the communities where our schools are located and to the internally displaced people around Kabul. Toothbrush and Toothpaste: Over 85,000 toothbrush and toothpaste kits were distributed to the needy through HTAC Clinics, HTAC Schools, and AHDS Clinics in Urozgan and Kandahar.
2003
Much Needed Medicine and Supplies Continue to Arrive
In continuation of our partnership with the AmeriCares Foundation, on June 20, 2003 our Afghanistan Office received a third shipment of medicine and medical supplies totaling 8,400 pounds. The shipment consisted of Analgesic & Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Antibacterial Agents, Nutritional Agents and Vitamins, Electrolytes, Gastro-Intestinal Agents, Medical Supplies and Personal Hygiene materials for kids. The aid was distributed to our clinics in Kabul and Nejrab and to Afghan Health and Development Services' clinics in Urozgan and Kandahar. Some of the medicine and medical supplies that were more suitable for hospitals were given to the Ministry of Health.
Ready for the Trails: Providing Shoes for Those in Need
Early in the school year, we received approximately 10,000 Timberland boots from AmeriCares Foundation. The timing was great. Our staff distributed over 6,000 pairs of boots to the students of our sponsored schools'. The remaining 4,000 pairs were given to the Ministry of Social Affairs to be distributed to their sponsored orphanages and kindergartens. Going through the small villages we can easily identify our students by their new Timberlands. On our last trip to one of our schools, we met a student who was grazing his family's cow in their field. We asked him if he had gotten his new shoes, and he proudly said yes. Then, he thoughtfully said, "Now I have three pairs of shoes…I purposely got a pair that was bigger than my feet so that I can have the new shoes fit me when these are worn out".
We would like to thank AmeriCares and Timberland for their generosity. Their contribution has certainly had a positive impact on thousands of Afghanistan children.
2002
40 tons of Medicine, Supplies, Nutritionals and other Relief Items to Hospitals and Primary Health Care Clinics in Kabul, Urozgan, and Kandahar
On May 8th 2002, Help the Afghan Children received the second air cargo shipment of medicines, medical supplies, and other relief items totaling 40 tons; brought to Afghanistan in an Antinov Cargo plane by AmeriCares Foundation in Kabul airport
The shipment contained analgesic and anti-Inflammatory medicines, antibacterial agents, nutritional agents, vitamins, antihypertensive agents, diuretics, electrolytes, antiprotozoal agents, surgical materials, respiratory aids, disinfectants, irrigating solutions, blankets, shoes, and other materials.
Help the Afghan Children, in collaboration with AmeriCares and the Ministry of Public Health, immediately distributed the medical aid to 5 medical outlets (Ali Abad Hosptial, Aria Clinic, Afghan Health and Development Services, Children's Hospital, and the Ministry of Public Healh-Afghanistan) with whom prior arrangements had been made.
Our Response to Northern Afghanistan's Earthquake
On March 26, 2002, a devastating Afghanistan earthquake registering 6.5 on the Richter scale leveled an estimated 90% of the city of Nahrin, approximately 100 miles north of the Capital City of Kabul. Help the Afghan Children, with the consultation and cooperation of the local authorities, gave $90,000.00 in small cash grants to 3,000 Afghan families who suffered from the Afghanistan earthquake.
One cargo plane containing 80,000 lbs of medical and other emergency relief to Kabul
In February of 2002, Help the Afghan Children in cooperation with AmeriCares delivered one cargo plane containing 47,000 lbs of medicines, medical supplies, blankets and dietry supplements, 22,000 lbs of flour and 11,000 lbs of cooking oil to local hospitals, HTAC ARIA Clinic in Kabul, and the Ministry of Public Health.
2001
Aid to the Internally Displaced People in Northern Afghanistan
Our last trip to Afghanistan in the year 2001 was during the weeks of October 22 to November 16, 2001 amidst intese fighting and the military campaigne of the Allied Forces. We distributed 239 tons of food aid (wheat, sugar, cooking oil) and 1,000 blankets to 3,759 families.
Distribution of tents to Afghanistan refugees in the Jalozai Camp, Peshawar Pakistan
In June of 2001, we traveled to the Jalozai Camp in Peshawar Pakistan, where 80, 000 Afghan refugees were faced with extreme heat, lack of safe drinking water and lived in squalid tents made from discarded plastic bags. On June 4th, we distributed 1,800 large tents directly to the Afghanistan refugees.
Emergency Aid to Internal-Refugees in Herat, Afghanistan
In April of 2001, HTACI's delegation traveled to Herat Afghanistan where thousands of people had left their homes and livelihoods, for a desperate journey of survival in hopes of escaping Afghanistan's worst crisis in decades. Some families were forced to sell the tin roofs from their houses to finance a perilous trip to an uncertain future. Many were lost along the way. We distributed 4,000 blankets, 24,260 pairs of shoes, 2,020 plastic backed carpets for tents, 4,500kg of cooking oil, and $13,000.00 (1040 millions Afghanis) cash to over 25,000 individuals, mostly children and women, whose misery has largely gone unnoticed. The total amount of charitable donations that we received for this life saving mission was $61,730.00. Rest assured that we made every penny count.
2000
Emergency Medical Supplies
(Kabul Clinics)
In November 2000, HTACI's delegation traveled to Kabul Afghanistan to deliver 21 tons of medicine and medical supplies to three local hospitals. The Children's Hospital, Rabia Balkhi Women's Hospital, and Malalai Maternity Hospital each received 7 tons of urgently needed resources.
1999
Kabul's Orphanage
In February 1999, we delivered and distributed blankets, clothing, shoes, towels, tooth-brushes, tooth-paste, soap, pens, pencils, notebooks, and crayons directly to the 750 orphans in the Kabul Orphanage.
Internal Refugees in Kabul and in Badakhshan
In September 1999, HTACI staff members distributed cash, and medicine to an estimated 18,000 internal refugees who were gathered in the old Russian embassy in the city of Kabul. Nearly 70%were women and children.
To addres their urgent medical needs, HTACI opened a temporary health clinic inside the severely damaged embassy. The clinic is still in operation and is serving thousands of people who have no other access to basic health care.
Badakhshan and Panjsher
Having had no access to air or ground transportation because of the fighting, we requested that the World Food Program and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) deliver our relief supplies to the internal refugees in Badakhshan and the Panjsher valley. Due to this collaboration, these supplies were successfully delivered to people who mihgt otherwise have perished due to their isolation.
1998
Assistance to Afghanistan Earthquake Victims in Badakhshan and the city of Rustaq
The Afghanistan earthquakes in February and May of 1998 in Badakhshan and Rustaq claimed more than 7,000 lives and left thousands of Afghan people injured and homeless. Help the Afghan Children, Inc. responded immedicately and, through the generosity of may caring individuals, became the first bridge of humanitarian relief between America and those struck by this disaster.
We distributed a total of $105,000.00 (equivalent to 7,234,997,000 Afghanis), more than 4,000 blankets, and more than 544 kg of medicine to over 5,000 families.
It took our delegation 20days to reach the remote villages traveling by horseback and foot. The 4000+ blankets were put on small make-shift boats and floated over a river and then loaded on 130 donkeys and transferred to the quake site.
1996
Internal- Refugees in Kabul
In the winter of 1996, HTACI provided emergency food for the internal refugees in Kabul. This aid was arranged through the intermediary of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
More than forty thousand families benefited from the food that was distributed in the form of bread supply for one month.
1994
Internal-Refugees in Jalalabad
During the years of 1994 and 1995, HTACI provided tents, blankets and other supplies to more than five thousand families in the city of Jalalabad.
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