Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan is a land with a turbulent history. Today the Afghan culture endures, reflecting the resilience and tenacity of the Afghan people. Operation Mercy is working together with local communities in many effective programs, such as, reducing infant mortality with Birth and Life Saving Skills –BliSS, providing Leadership Training and empowering women through the development of Self Help Groups.
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Safari Consultants Good Books
Many children delight in books. We publish and distribute 'good books' for Afghan children with positive cultural themes.
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Safari Consultants Leadership Training
One of Afghanistan's greatest needs is developing strong governance and a civil society mindset .We develop leadership and management skills through training seminars rooted in local culture for university students and professionals from all sectors of society. Our workshops are tailor-made for each specific institution and are geared to empower the Afghan people in their own context.
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Self Help Group Kabul
Working in Kabul, The Self Help Group (SHG) project empowers women to help raise their family’s standard of living, through basic health awareness, business training, human rights, education and literacy, which in turn allows women to positively influence society.
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Women's Project Development (WPD)
Creating and establishing a community owned demonstration garden has developed skills and knowledge for growing fruit trees and vegetables for families in mostly rural or semi-urban areas. This opportunity to impact both health and agricultural education is providing nutritional benefits for local families.
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BLiSS Mazar-e-Sharif
Working in Mazar-e Sharif, the Birth Life Saving Skills Project (BLiSS) is a health education program focused on maternal health. With over 85% of Afghan women delivering their babies at home by untrained attendants, BLiSS addresses mother and infant mortality rates to save lives through simple and effective, participatory educational training.
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Self Help Group Mazar-e-Sharif
The Self Help Group (SHG) project working in Mazar-e Sharif follows the same guidelines as the SHG project in Kabul. This project empowers women to help raise their family’s standard of living, through basic health awareness, business training, human rights, education and literacy, which in turn allows women to positively influence society.
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BLiSS Kabul
Working in Kabul, the Birth Life Saving Skills Project (BLiSS) is a health education program focused on maternal health. With over 85% of Afghan women delivering their babies at home by untrained attendants, BLiSS addresses mother and infant mortality rates to save lives through simple and effective, participatory educational training.
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BLiSS National Program
Birth Life Saving Skills (BLiSS) training continues to be tremendously effective in providing safer environments for pregnant mothers and infants both during and after childbirth. Our participatory educational training is being modeled and taught amongst other NGO’s working with women in Afghanistan to reduce mother and infant mortality rates. Training men and women to teach BLiSS is an effective means to reproduce this valuable work.
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Wakhan Community Health and Development Project
The Wakhi people live in villages in the north eastern and poorest part of the Wakhan valley in Afghanistan.
Our project in the Wakhan is multifaceted, with BLiSS training, immunisation programs, and varied education and health trainings. By working with the Wakhi people, communities are becoming empowered to make positive changes and child and maternal mortality have shown reductions.
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