Active Projects
Afghanistan
Emergency Relief
We have urgent needs for Food Relief
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For IDP, returning, flood-affected, jobless, widows, disabled, homeless and earthquake-affected families in Afghanistan.
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$142 AUD per family provides the basic food items to last two to three months:
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50 kg of flour
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10 litres cooking oil
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4 kg kidney beans
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25 kg rice
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1 kg tea
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5 kg sugar for tea
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Clean water
Afghanistan
Wells
Afghanistan is a very arid country, and wells have to be extremely deep to reach ground water, 60 meters deep is not uncommon.
Working with local village elders, Shelter Now scouts out springs in various locations which are potable, secures them and installs pipes and taps. We do not use diesel pumps as these would place too much demand on the water supply, ultimately causing all the springs to dry up.​
Hand washing facilities
Washing hands is one of the best ways to prevent the spread of disease and providing a clean place and water will significantly reduce infections and illness among children. The children are taught this in the current school curriculum, but without this provision from Shelter, they would have no way to act on their learnings.
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With the help of donations, Shelter volunteers are organising installation of water tanks connected to water taps in schools in the north east of the country. This provides a practical aspect to the school curriculum, reduces infections and promotes health.
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Education Centres
Afghanistan
Deaf Centre
The outlook for the disabled is especially bleak. Without an education, they have little chance of finding paid employment. Since 2005, Shelter Now has run an education and training centre for the deaf and the deaf with added disablitiies.
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The Deaf Centre is a training and education facility for those that are not able to go through normal training programs due to their hearing disability. The program seeks to educate and help these people get jobs and make lives for themselves, despite their disability.
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We still need funds to keep the Deaf Centre running this year. A number of deaf graduates are employed in the Deaf Centre. Your donations are vital for the students in keeping their centre open with rent, amenities and salaries.
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Lania Now School
In one of Afghanistan's cities, Shelter supports a small group of local teachers who provide education for approximately 150 primary aged children.
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We need ongoing funds to run this school, for increasing numbers of teachers and students.
Number of individuals to benefit from these projects = ~200
Micro-financing
Medicine for sheep
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These projects include providing winter and summer medicine to 120 families who own a total of 600 sheep and 400 lambs. We assist families establish new heards of sheep with a year of medicines, for each winter and summer, and will help these flocks live through the harsh seasons of Afghanistan. ​
Trees, Bees and Honey
Honey is highly prized in Afghanistan for its nutritional value and is therefore extremely expensive. Most honey is imported. So there is a market for domestic production and even for export.
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Shelter Now provides training for Afghan families in beekeeping and honey production. Together the new and the existing fruit plantations provide sufficient feeding and collection grounds for the bees. The region is also home to many wild flowers in spring and summer.
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We select families who have little or no income and provide them with 5 colonies of bees each and an extractor with which they can remove the honey from the honeycomb. We also provide the necessary training. After one year, when the bees have reproduced, one new bee colony is given back to the project so that new families can benefit from the scheme.
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Additionally there are expenses for the training, medication and the transport of the bees into their winter camp.
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In 2024/25 we will continue to provide bees, bee hives and sugar to 5 families so that they can make their own honey and a sustainable income.
We would like to provide 10 honey hives for each of 5 families this year. The families will return the hives so that SNI can pass them on to new families the following year.
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Number of individuals to benefit from these projects = 875
Dental clinic in Herat
Since the summer of 2009 Shelter Now maintains a Dental Clinic in Herat, West Afghanistan, lead for a long time by an Iranian Dentist.
With much energy and great perserverance Dr. Azar Eyni has been successful in establishing the Shelter Now Dental Clinic.
In the meantime this institution has gained an excellent reputation in Afghanistan as a clinic that meets European medical and hygienic standards. Each patient pays a small fee for his or her treatment, depending upon the individual financial situation. Afghan Dentists and Assistants are trained here.
Of course the low patient fees do not cover the running costs of the Shelter Now Dental Clinic. This clinic is dependant upon your support.
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This clinic has now been handed over to the Herat University.
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Shelter Now has established a regional dental clinic in the village of Shakiban, 45KM west of Herat. This clinic began operation in 2023 and has trreated more than 1,000 patients.