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WAW's Programs:
• Queens Community Center
• Family Guidance Centers
• Children's Support Center
• Afghan Women's Fund
• Advocacy
See our quarterly eNews letters for regular updates on all of WAW's programs |
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Queens Community Center
Since 2001, WAW has done outreach into the Afghan community in Queens, NY. We run a community center in Flushing, Queens, where women from the community come on a walk-in basis. The core part of our Queens program is an ESL curriculum which brings women in, and gives them vital life skills while at the same time educating them about their rights. We always try and engage women from the community in leadership development and
encourage them to be agents in their own lives and in the struggle for women's rights. We help women with the prevalent social problems of domestic violence and forced marriages.
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Family Guidance Centers
In 2006, WAW launched the first Family Guidance Center in Kabul, Afghanistan. After a six-month feasibility study, we designed a model for our program--a walk-in center for any individual (man or woman) who has
experienced a human rights violation. We have on staff a battalion of social workers, case workers, and lawyers who help each client get justice or attain the solution they desire to their problems. For
those situations where a female client's life is in danger, or she literally has nowhere to go, we have a shelter in a secret location. Since 2006, we have seen over 900 women in our Kabul Family Guidance Center.
We have also replicated this model in two other Afghan cities - Mazar-E-Sharif and Kapisa. We are soon to expand to Jalalabad and Kunduz, in 2010.
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Children's Support Center
In November 2009 we launched a residence for the 40 children above the age of 5 who were living in the Kabul women's prison with their mothers who are inmates there. We have desgined a program for education and emotional counseling for the children, and have created very tailored plans for each child to be reunited with their mother once she is released. We hope to provide each mother with vocational training and emotional counseling for a period of time before she reintegrates into the world outside prison.
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Afghan Women's Fund
Click here for the latest updates from AWF
The Afghan Women's Fund is a program which is Directed by WAW Board member Fahima Vorgetts. Through this program, WAW (particularly Fahima) raises money and then funds projects across Afghanistan for women's literacy,
vocational training, and economic empwerment. The program has built ten schools in the past 8 years--5 in proper buildings and 5 in tents.
Click here for past updates on Afghan Women's Fund.
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Advocacy and Empowerment
This is not a separate program of WAW. Every single program is tethered to our mission to secure, protect and advance the human rights of Afghan women and girls. Whenever oportunities arise, we lend our organizational voice to the global struggle for human rights.
Click here for WAW's advocacy statements. |
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