Before the recent upsurge in violence in Syria and Iraq, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported that Afghanistan remained the world’s top producer of refugees for the 32nd year in a row.

As of July 2014, the UNHCR estimated there are approximately 700,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Afghanistan. Violence has been the major factor in involuntary population movements among Afghans.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The vast majority of Afghan refugees reside in Pakistan and Iran, where they face an uncertain political situation, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).

Iranian officials, for example, deport thousands of undocumented Afghans without allowing them the opportunity to demonstrate a legal right to remain in Iran, or to lodge an asylum application.

 

When Afghan refugees do repatriate, they return to a country that remains plagued by war, poverty, and lawlessness.

According to a 2012 report by the Feinstein International Center, one in three Afghan children are malnourished, with rates far higher in conflict-affected regions. 

Access to health care remains very limited, with 15 percent of the population without access to even basic healthcare services.

In areas where fighting continues, militants lack respect for the neutrality of health care facilities, making visiting these facilities dangerous.

                                   

                                   

Key Findings

 

• A quarter of refugees worldwide are Afghan, and the vast majority live in Pakistan or Iran, where they face an uncertain political status.

• Afghan IDPs and repatriated refugees unable to return to their original places of origin often live in informal settlements, where many people have died due to cold and illness.

• Key public health indicators in Afghanistan are poor, with access to basic health care very low and rates of child malnourishment high.

 

 

OUR ACTION IN AFGHANISTAN

 

 

• AFRDP helps in the KILLI FAIZO refugee camp, on the Afghan-Pakistan border.

• AFRDP helps children access primary education, including high-risk children in Kabul’s informal settlements. We also provide the children with English classes thanks to the help of the US army volunteers deployed there.

• AFRDP focuses on providing returning refugees and internally displaced Afghans with shelter, water and sanitation, and restoring the nation’s health. Thanks to your donations, we are indeed able to provide shelter (tents), distribute water boxes, but most importantly we are digging wells, we provide healthy food, basic cooking kits, hygiene kits, basic medicine as well as vaccinations for the kids.

• AFRDP is helping families access a basic Health Insurance.  

• AFRDP is educating residents about the importance of safe hygiene practices through hygiene awareness programs.

• AFRDP is also helping families start kicthen gardens and farms by providing high-yield wheat seeds, fertilizer and poultry.

• AFRDP is helping families to start a new life and make a living as tailors or farmers by organizing 6-week long tailoring and farming courses in local communities.