Form an Action Team to Help Afghan Women

Direct Assistance

Action Teams to Help Afghan Women will provide direct assistance to nonprofit, non-governmental organizations led by Afghan women who are providing education, health, and relief services to Afghan women and girls. These groups are in a position to help larger numbers of Afghan women and girls living as refugees in Pakistan, and where possible in Afghanistan, if only they had more resources to survive and to contend with the increasing need.

The Feminist Majority Foundation continues to push for increased and direct funding for these organizations from the United Nations and the United States government. In both Afghanistan and Pakistan, the heroic women running these organizations need resources of a magnitude that only the U.N. or U.S. can provide.

However, at the same time, action teams in the U.S. and around the world can directly raise funds for these organizations by participating in the FM's Afghan Women and Girls Assistance Project. Through participation in this program, you can help support schools for Afghan girls, adult literacy programs for Afghan women, or women's health clinics at levels that will sustain them for about one year. For example:

• $2000 pays for rent for school of 400 children
• $1000 pays for medical supplies for a women's health clinic
• $450 pays for a teacher's salary
• $150 pays for classroom chalkboards for a school
• $60 supplies notebooks, pencils, and pencil sharpeners for 300 students

The future of a peaceful, stable, and democratic Afghanistan depends upon these Afghan women's organizations and the women and girls to whom they are providing assistance and educational opportunities. The project will convey directly to Afghan women and girls the commitment of the U.S. feminist movement to help fight for the restoration of their most basic human rights, especially the right to education.

As a part of the original Back to School Campaign, over 625 action teams were formed to help raise funds for schools for girls inside and outside of Afghanistan and led petition drives to urge the U.S. government to do everything in its power to end gender apartheid in Afghanistan.

You can designate the type of program that you and your action team would like to support. Funds raised by the action teams can be sent either directly to an Afghan women's organization or to the Feminist Majority Foundation which in turn will transfer the funds to the organization.

Form an Action Team

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