Details of InterAction Member Assistance

Action Against Hunger (AAH)
(January 30, 2002)
AAH worked with Afghan refugees in Pakistan from 1979 to 1989 and has been operational inside Afghanistan since 1995. Close to 30 AAH fieldworkers and 700 local staff are ensuring the continuation of programs in Afghanistan. AAH teams are currently present in Kabul, Hazaradjat (the mountainous region in central Afghanistan), Pansheer (eastern Afghanistan), Mazar-I-Sharif (north), and Herat (west).

Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA)
(November 22, 2002)
Since October 2001, ADRA has been providing emergency aid to four refugee camps along the borders of Pakistan and Tajikistan. In addition, ADRA has distributed approximately 80 tons of humanitarian products such as blankets, clothing, hygiene kits, kitchen utensils and shoes to Badakshan Province in northern Afghanistan; the agency is also building schools in northern Afghanistan. Around Kabul, ADRA has been helping people prepare for winter through the distribution of blankets made in Afghanistan as part of an economic development project, and ADRA is in the process of completing an assessment of needs in preparation for long-term development projects.

Air Serv International
(September 13, 2004)
Air Serv maintains three King Air 200’s in Afghanistan to support the logistics needs of more than 300 international relief organizations currently operating in the country. Air Serv also provides emergency medical and security evacuation of relief workers. Air transport services are needed because surface transportation within the region remains extremely hazardous due to banditry, unexploded ordnance and mines. We are currently accepting donations for this program.

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
(September 9, 2002)
The AFSC is constructing and repairing primary and secondary schools in Afghanistan, providing playground equipment, and supporting literacy and vocational training programs for war widows. More detailed information can be found at: www.afsc.org/afghan.htm

American Jewish World Service (AJWS)
(August 4, 2003)
AJWS has been supporting human rights programs in Afghanistan since 1999. Prior to the fall of the Taliban, the agency's work in women's education and health was done secretly. AJWS continues to support schools and medical centers for women and girls in Herat, Jalalabad, Kabul and Peshawar, Pakistan.

American Red Cross
(March 22, 2004)
Since 2001, the American Red Cross has sent children's winter jackets, hats and boots, blankets, children's gift parcels, kitchen sets, tarps, winterized family tents, school supplies for 80,000 children, and medical supplies to Afghanistan. The American Red Cross is administering America's Fund for Afghan Children in coordination with the White House. In addition, the American Red Cross has supported initiatives to assist the people of Afghanistan, including the WHO/UNICEF measles vaccination program, the creation of libraries and support for teacher training, extensive mother-child health programs, therapeutic feeding programs for malnourished children, and a malaria prevention program for women (through UNICEF).

American Refugee Committee
(July 9, 2002)
The American Refugee Committee is providing health services with UNHCR for Afghan refugees at Voluntary Repatriation Centers (VRC's) in Quetta and Rawalpindi, preparing the refugees for a return to their homeland.

AmeriCares
(March 1, 2004)
Since early 2002, AmeriCares has shipped supplies (via air and sea) to address the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. The ongoing humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan includes medicines, medical supplies, and other relief materials (i.e. blankets, children's boots, clothing, dental hygiene supplies, nutritional supplements and school supplies). AmeriCares is accepting gifts-in-kind for this emergency. More detailed information can be found at: http://www.americares.org/international/country-921363.asp

Brother's Brother Foundation (BBF)
(March 26, 2002)
BBF sent sent three tractor-trailer loads of requested medical supplies for the Women's Hospital in Kabul and other medical facilities earlier in March from its warehouse in Pittsburgh and fourth shipment is planned for early April.

CARE
(November 29, 2001)
In Kabul, CARE has continued to supply clean water to approximately 245,000 men, women and children; CARE is also distributing food to 50,000 destitute people and water and sanitation services to tens of thousands of Afghans. In villages in Khost and Gardez provinces, more than 5,000 boys and girls attend classes at CARE-assisted primary schools. To assist displaced families, CARE has been trucking in food from Peshawar, Pakistan to Kabul and also is sending in winter kits for 30,000 people, that include blankets, shawls, buckets and soap. In Tajikistan, CARE is working with the UN and other international aid agencies to meet the needs people on the border as well as planning de-mining operations; in Iran, CARE is meeting with officials to determine what role the organization can play in providing food, shelter and other assistance for incoming refugees.

Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
(November 20, 2002)
CRS's ongoing development programs in Afghanistan include school reconstruction, accelerated learning programs for out of school youth, agriculture and livelihoods projects, as well as continued provision of emergency winterization materials, water and health and hygiene assistance in Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan. CRS has been providing emergency assistance to both Afghan refugees in Pakistan and vulnerable persons inside of Afghanistan since November 2001, including food and non-food distributions in various locations within Pakistan and Afghanistan, reaching nearly 700,000 individuals. Additionally, CRS has provided water, sanitation and health education for Afghan refugees in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province. CRS programming has also included the broadcasting, in 14 languages, of peace and reconciliation radio programs throughout Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Childreach/Plan International USA
(January 29, 2002)
In Pakistan, Childreach/Plan is working with thousands of Afghan refugees arriving through Chaman, on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border; lining with local companies, Childreach/Plan supplies clothes, blankets and water drums to more than 3,000 families living in refugee camps. Childreach/Plan is also working with the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC), World Health Organization (WHO) and the government of Baluchistan province to establish a health care system to provide for the immediate needs of the refugee families and Plan has started non-formal schools for Afghan children in the camps. In Islamabad, Plan is working with the government to determine the refugees' needs in the areas of education, health, livelihood, and habitat. More detailed information can be found at: http://www.childreach.org/news/pakistanupd.html

Christian Children's Fund (CCF)
(June 10, 2004)
CCF, working in Afghanistan since December 2001 as ChildFund Afghanistan, is working primarily in Northern Afghanistan, providing a wide range of programs including: demobilization of underage ex-combatants; construction and reconstruction of schools; agricultural development for Afghanistan farmers; creating local grassroots governance through 40 community-based Child Well-Being Committees, mobilizing villages around child protection issues; micro-enterprise development for women; water/sanitation with the construction of more than 100 new wells and repair of more than 200 wells; providing shelter assistance in the Takhar Province; literacy training, among others. CCF's programs in Afghanistan covered $3.1 million in projects in fiscal 2003.

Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC)
(January 14, 2004)
CRWRC is contributing to a distribution of food, led by MEDAIR, for more than 2000 people in a tuberculosis (TB) prevention program for 1 year (the program started in March of 2003). CRWRC is also the lead partner in a northern Afghanistan seed and fertilizer project, which also includes nutritional and health aspects, implemented in collaboration with ZOA. CRWRC is also taking the lead in a food and nutrition program, implemented by CRWRC's partner agencies, CADA/FHI, in which 32,000 people received, in total, 3,500 MT of wheat, beans, and oil while a nutritionist determined the nutritional impact of the food program.

Church World Service (CWS)
(November 28, 2001)
CWS is has distributed 6,000 Family Shelter Kits and food parcels to internally-displaced Afghan families in central and northern areas of Afghanistan, and 3,000 to Afghan refugee families in Pakistan. The shelter kits and food are part of a CWS plan to assist 17,000 Afghan families, some 119,000 people in all, as part of a $6.28 million shelter assistance and food program. In addition, some 400 Afghan refugee women in Pakistan are earning a small income in a CWS-sponsored project to make 60,000 quilts for distribution to refugee families. CWS is using 20,000 of the quilts in Family Shelter Kits; the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and UNICEF are purchasing the other 40,000 quilts for use in their emergency programs

Concern Worldwide US
(December 21, 2001)
Concern Worldwide has now established an office in Taloqan and survey teams are currently assessing IDP numbers and need as people begin to return to their homes. Concern's emergency distributions of shelter materials and non-food items such as blankets, clothes kitchen sets, and fuel continue. Through its Food for Work Program Concern is building and entire network of roads in Khost wa Fereng district in the North East, which will allow greater access for food delivery through the winter. In Quetta, Pakistan, Concern is managing two camps for Afghan refugees who have crossed the border.>

Direct Relief International (DRI)
(August 7, 2002)
To date, DRI has provided 21 tons of pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, and comfort items, including antibiotics, analgesics, oral rehydration salts, first aid supplies, blankets and personal care kits, to emergency medical teams and established health facilities in Afghanistan and for those working with Afghan refugees in Pakistan. DRI works in partnership with local and international aid agencies involved in providing services to the people of Afghanistan. DRI is accepting contributions and gifts-in-kind from medical product manufacturers. For product contributions contact: arandopoulos@directrelief.org.

Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)
(October 2, 2001)
Present in Afghanistan since 1979, MSF is currently assisting Afghan refugees in Iran and Pakistan, as well as running extensive medical, nutritional, and water and sanitation programs throughout both the Northern Alliance-controlled northeastern part of Afghanistan and the Taliban-held regions of the country. MSF teams in neighboring Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan are also preparing for a possible influx of additional refugees.

Food for the Hungry, Inc.(FHI)
(February 1, 2002)
Since October of 2001 FHI and its partners CADA, World Concern and NWMTI, have been working in the Northern Afghan province of Takhar. Distributions have included blankets and winter clothing to over 35,000 people, along with shoes for 2,900 children; distributions of blankets and clothing are continuing as supplies become available. As Spring approaches, FHI and its partners hope to shift the focus to food security, including seed and tool distributions, rebuilding or establishing irrigation systems, and animal husbandry projects.

International Aid
(November 7, 2001)
International Aid plans to ship relief items such as food, blankets and medicines to Pakistan for the Afghan refugees, and is exploring other ways of providing assistance.

International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC)
(January 29, 2002)
ICMC is currently working in 20 refugee camps and five urban centers providing individualized and urgently needed assistance to the most vulnerable refugees (female heads of household, widows, the physically and mentally disabled, and the frail and unaccompanied elderly) as well as implementing skills training, nonformal education, and managing Refugee Legal Assistance Centers to address issues of detention, deportation, access to health, education, and shelter as well as repatriation support. Nearly 250,000 refugees are benefiting from ICMC's services.

International Medical Corps (IMC)
(May 13, 2004)
IMC has worked in Afghanistan since 1984 and today provides a combination of primary, secondary, and tertiary health care, comprehensive health care training and integrated development programs, with a focus on women and children, as well as other displaced and vulnerable populations. With the support of its donors and the Ministry of Public Health, IMC operates 361 health posts, 40 comprehensive health centers, six basic health centers, four district hospitals and two emergency obstetric centers for more than 700,000 beneficiaries in nine provinces. In addition to providing health care directly, IMC trains Afghan health professionals, creating a pool of skilled Afghan health care workers who provide primary health care and education in such topics as pre- and post-natal care, immunizations, breastfeeding and nutrition. IMC complements these programs with numerous cash- for-work projects, employing nearly 4,500 local laborers, both men and women, to maintain roads, build bridges and make quilts.

International Rescue Committee (IRC)
(August 18, 2004)
With offices in Kabul, Mazar-e-Sharif, Herat, Jalalabad and Gardez, the IRC supports major programs in protection, reintegration of returnees and emergency infrastructure support (shelter/water and sanitation), vocational training, education, child protection, health, security, capacity building and community development. The IRC is also sponsoring the Afghan Non-Governmental Organization Security Office which provides concise, up-to-date security information for the humanitarian community. In Pakistan, the IRC provides comprehensive assistance to hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees while working to protect the rights of Afghan refugees and IDPs and those returning to their homes in Afghanistan. For more detailed information visit: http://www.theirc.org/afghanistan/.

Latter-day Saint Charities (LDSC)
(November 7, 2001)
Latter-day Saint Charities is providing 19 shipping containers of relief supplies for Afghan refugees. The supplies provided include clothing, wool blankets, quilts, newborn kits, dry milk, hygiene kits, plastic sheeting (for shelter and ground cover) and water pouches, totaling 376,000 pounds.

Life for Releif and Development
(April 21, 2003)
Life for Relief and Development USA has been helping the poor and war hit people of Afghanistan and Afghan refugees in Pakistan since October 2001. Life has distributed food, clothing and Blankets to Afghan refugees in five refugee camps in Peshawar and Bajaur Agency in Pakistan and to IDPs and local communities inside Afghanistan. Life has distributed thousands of medical textbooks to medical colleges and nursing schools in Afghanistan and is running two orphan high schools in Laghman and Jalalabad. Life is accepting donations of medical supplies for this emergency.

Lutheran World Relief (LWR)
(July 3, 2002)
LWR is supporting local and international NGOs with more than $1.4 million in material aid and cash grants to help assist the most vulnerable people, both within Afghanistan and in camps on the border of Pakistan and Iran. In the last six months, LWR's partners have provided monthly food packages to 28,000 families, installed water and sanitation systems in refugee camps, and distributed more than 37,000 hand-made quilts, 8,000 baby layettes, 13,000 school and health kits, and clothes and soap shipped from LWR warehouses. LWR's partners are beginning longer-term rehabilitation efforts, including vocational training and quilt-making projects for women to help generate income for their families. More detailed information can be found at: http://www.lwr.org/emergencies/01/afghan.html

MAP International
(November 26, 2001)
MAP International is coordinating the delivery of essential medicines and medical supplies to the Afghan refugees living in the bordering countries of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. In cooperation with other InterAction members, MAP has been working to deliver WHO Emergency Health Kits and additional GIK medicines and medical supplies critical for the treatment of the many people displaced over the past years by drought and war. Efforts continue for the delivery of goods to workers within the more secure areas of Afghanistan. MAP International is accepting cash contributions and donations of health and medical related gift-in-kind for relief efforts.

Mercy Corps
(March 5, 2002)
Mercy Corps is responding to immediate relief needs in Afghanistan while supporting long-term development; programs include agriculture/crop-substitution, water management, health, infrastructure, education, and economic development. A network of 10 offices and a staff of more than 200 in Afghanistan and Pakistan are administering food security programs, stimulating the health and economic prospects of recent returnee communities, involving local participation in long-term rehabilitation strategy, and targeting improved welfare and educational opportunities for Afghan children. Mercy Corps has worked in the region since 1986. Mercy Corps accepts gifts-in-kind on a limited basis, when the item is culturally relevant, approved by field staff, and unavailable locally.

Northwest Medical Teams International (NWMT)
(March 14, 2002)
NWMT has transitioned from the IDP camps to providing curative care, non-food distribution, and public health interventions in the Kudibarkh region, 20kms NE of Mazar-e-Sharif. Working in the Kudibarkh Hospital as a base of operation, additional objectives include Afghan medical worker training, the re-supply and re-equipping of Kurdibarkh Hospital. Medical teams conduct mobile clinics in 16 local villages, along with non-food and supplementry food distribution where necessary.

Operation USA
(December 13, 2001)
Operation USA is working with an Afghan and American NGO to provide medical supplies to health workers serving the needs of Afghan refugees. Operation USA requests donations of pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, nutritional items and shelter goods. Operation USA is in discussions with UNICEF concerning use of a new technology to which Operation USA has exclusive access to search for ground water in Afghanistan.

Oxfam America
(October 2, 2001)
Working through long-term development partners and established feeding centers, Oxfam is currently supplying food assistance to the displaced inside Afghanistan. In addition, Oxfam is setting up water and sanitation at camp sites along the Pakistani border.

Refugees International
(May 12, 2004)
Refugees International continues to conduct assessment missions to Afghanistan. Refugees International monitors the extent of the local level integration of returning refugees and internally displaced persons and the overall impact of the international relief and development program for the country. Refugees International has also provided training in advocacy to a network of women’s organizations that are working for greater inclusion of women in the political and economic life of the country.

Relief International
(June 15, 2004)
Relief International (RI) assists Afghan men, women, and children through a variety of education, health, infrastructure rehabilitation and business development programs. In 2003 RI initiated over 200 infrastructure rehabilitation projects and provided health care, literacy classes and vocational training to hundreds of women in 2 of RI’s Afghan Women’s Development Centers. Additionally, RI provided 200 books for each of the 71 libraries it rehabilitated or constructed over the past year, with plans for the total number of libraries serviced to reach 300. RI also furnished several Afghan schools with computers and access to the internet. Relief International is accepting in-kind donations of computers.

Salvation Army World Service Office (SAWSO)
(December 7, 2001)
SAWSO (The Salvation Army World Service Office) in cooperation with the Salvation Army's International Headquarters and in partnership with its Pakistan affiliate, is supporting a program to provide assistance to Afghan refugees in the border community of Peshawar in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. Initially food, tents,and supplies such as sweaters, blankets, and cookware will be provided to new and old caseload Afghan refugees as well as other invisibles disbursed throughout the community.

Save the Children
(September 3, 2002)
In addition to its ongoing work to provide health, education and economic-opportunity programs throughout the region, Save the Children is delivering food, educating women in economic self-sufficiency and training local health workers to care for malnourished children.

United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)
(July 2, 2002)
UMCOR has designed an integrated multi-sectoral approach to address the long-term needs of individual communities in Afghanistan through more than US $1.5 million generated by constituents of the United Methodist Church. UMCOR plans to focus its programs in: 1) Return and Reconstruction; 2) Agriculture/Food Security/Drought Alleviation; 3) Education; 4) Income Generation/Micro Credit; 5) Community Development; and 6) Capacity Building. UMCOR is accepting health/hygiene kits designated for displaced Afghans; for instructions on assembling and shipping kits, please call the UMCOR Depot at 800-814-8765, or visit: http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/kits.html.

USA for UNHCR
(October 2, 2001)
UNHCR is providing food, shelter, and water, and meeting the basic sanitation and health needs of the refugees in Pakistan, Iran and Tajikistan who have fled from Afghanistan. The agency is also preparing to accommodate as many as 1.5 million Afghans who may attempt to leave Afghanistan during the next several weeks. UNHCR is also working with the governments in the region to ensure open borders and identify possible refugee sites near the borders. Many relief supplies are being airlifted to border areas in Pakistan and Iran.

US Fund for UNICEF
(June 30, 2004)
UNICEF provides emergency relief work in Afghanistan. UNICEF is partnering with Afghani and international organizations to provide humanitarian aid, help rebuild the country’s schools, tackle malnutrition and immunize children against preventable diseases. Emphasis is placed on the promotion of children’s rights and the advancement of girls’ education. UNICEF facilitates rehabilitation programs for underage soldiers so that they may re-enter the educational system or obtain vocational training.

United Way International (UWI)
(October 24, 2001)
UWI,is dividing its funding evenly between food aid and medical assistance for Afghan IDPs in Northwest Pakistan (NWFP and Baluchistan). UWI is channeling 100% of disaster relief donations to two responsible local organizations.

Women's EDGE (EDGE)
(January 29, 2002)
EDGE is mobilizing its 70 organizational members, many of whom have operations on the ground in Afghanistan and Central Asia, to take action on behalf of women in Afghanistan. Specifically, EDGE is working on Capitol Hill to develop and promote development assistance legislation that focuses on women's economic development, leadership and participation in Afghanistan. Most notably, we are working with offices in the House and Senate on the Access for Afghan Women Act, HR 3342. More detailed information is available at: www.womensedge.org/septtragedy/accessafghan.htm

World Concern
(November 21, 2002)
World Concern has worked in Afghanistan for more than 22 years and is currently focusing on relief and reconstruction efforts in northern Afghanistan. In the northeastern province of Takar, more than 10,000 families are receiving food assistance, thousands have received warm clothing, shoes and blankets, and seed distribution remains a top priority. World Concern is now beginning to refocus on reconstruction in the Mazar region. World Concern is accepting clothing, blankets, seeds and medical supplies for this emergency.

World Relief
(October 16, 2003)
World Relief has completed clinic construction, immunization campaigns and community surveys. The organization is continuing activities such as training of community health workers through IAM. World Relief is also installing bore pumps in some of the clinics where wells ran dry.

World Vision
(December 7, 2001)
World Vision is setting up a food distribution program targeting 360,000 people in the Herat region and in two northern districts in collaboration with WFP. World Vision is also setting up a nutrition program in Herat, Ghowar, Badghis, and Farah in conjunction with UNICEF. World Vision continues its partnership with Mercy Corps and Ockenden International through its teams in Pakistan, Iran, and Uzbekistan in which emergency supplies are distributed to Afghan IDPs and refugees.

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