Winter 2012 eNews WAW E-NEWSLETTER2012: THE YEAR IN REVIEW  Dear WAW Supporters, I take this opportunity to give all of our supporters a summary of all that we accomplished in 2012.  And thanks to you, we accomplished a lot! In Afghanistan: New Playground at Kabul Children's Support Center We served 2300 women in our eight Family Guidance Centers, 1550 women in our seven shelters, one halfway house, and two transitional houses, and 250 children in our three Children's Support Centers. We trained 23,210 community members (men and women) through our Women's Rights ARE Human Rights training program. Our work has bee... Read more

eNews Summer 2012 WAW IN THE NEWS: THIS WEEK, WAW'S WORK WAS FEATURED IN THE LA TIMES AND RADIO FREE EUROPE.  CLICK THE IMAGES TO READ THE ARTICLES     A SEASON OF ADVOCACY  This Summer 2012 issue of Itihad-e-Zan brings you updates on our frontline work in Afghanistan and New York. Our Director Manizha Naderi has been outspoken in her advocacy against negotiations with the Taliban.  Manizha has given talks in Turkey and across the United States. READ MORE Things are fast deteriorating in Afghanistan, and yet there are more cases reported than ever bef... Read more

WAW eNews Summer, 2011 Itihad-e-Zan Welcome! - A Letter From Our Executive Director Dear WAW Supporters, We are a little tardy with our Summer 2011 e-newsletter because we have been in fifth gear with both program expansion in Afghanistan and ten year gala preparation in New York. This latest issue of Itihad-e-Zan launches our brand new website. Same organization, same URL, new look! Check out the new site, send us your feedback, and visit us often. The social media icons on each page will let you share parts of the website easily. Our volunteer Stephan Shaw designed both our old website and this new one. Stephan, who is married to our ... Read more

eNews December 2011 Welcome! - A Letter From Our Executive Director Dear WAW Supporters,Our first e-newsletter of 2011, our tenth anniversary year, comes to you in the midst of a crisis.  It also comes to you on a day when our work to empower Afghan women in New York is featured prominently in the New York Times. Today's article by Kirk Semple brings light to the important work we do to address domestic violence in New York's Afghan community, and makes the connection between our work in New York and across Afghanistan.The Crisis: Two weeks ago, after spending two months in our New York office, I returned to Kabul—and to a dire situation.  An Afghan government-sponsored bill pro... Read more

eNews November 2010 Itihad-e-Zan The Latest Welcome! - A Letter From Our Executive Director Dear WAW Supporters, Welcome to our fifth e-newsletter. You will read profiles of two women whose lives have been transformed thanks to their own courage and WAW's work: Nadia in Queens and Qandi Gul in Kabul. This issue is packed with program updates from the Family Guidance Centers and Children's Support Center in Afghanistan and also our Queens Community Center in Fresh Meadows, NY. The day of the parliamentary elections was very scary for us—no one in WAW was hurt in spite of Taliban rocketfire throughout the country, although the windows ... Read more

eNews July 2009 Itihad-e-Zan The Latest Welcome! Welcome to Women for Afghan Women's inaugural issue of our quarterly enewsletter, Itihad-E-Zan. We will bring you news of our work in Afghanistan and Queens, NY, four times a year, along with a feature story about a woman or girl who has been empowered by our work. We will also include any press coverage we have received, or other organizational announcements.Please look out for our e-news, read the stories, and forward the newsletter to your friends. Thank you for being a part of the WAW community - our work is made possible by your support. In this issue Welcome t... Read more