Home

Members

HOW TO JOIN AWN

The AWN is composed of both NGOs and individual members. Currently there are 65 NGOs and over 2000 individuals. The NGOs are:
  Individual Member of the Month: Wazhma's Salon

Afghan Women’s Counseling and Integration Community Support Organization

The Afghan Women’s Organization also know as the Afghan Women’s Counseling and Integration Community Support Organization was incorporated in June 1990 to address the specific needs and issues of Afghan Canadian women and their families. The AWO receives funding from the federal provincial and municipal governments and other foundation to provide services in the areas of settlement (language training, orientation, counseling, job search); prevention of women’s assault; income generation projects for afghan Canadian women; youth and senior’s programs and a critical Media literacy program. AWO is also taking part nationally in the Refugee sponsorship and Training program (RSTP) and is a sponsorship Agreement Holder with the government.

Afghan Women's Resource Center

is a non-governmental, non-political, indigenous,

humanitarian aid organization, working for

Afghan women in NWFP Pakistan since October 10989. Its main aim has been to serve as a focal point for Afghan women from all walks of life, including those living in refugee camps and in the urban parts of Peshawar. As an independent Afghan NGO, AWRC has sought to promote the interests of the female Afghan community in Peshawar towards self-sufficiency and empowerment. For the past twelve years AWRC has served as an educational and vocational training center for over 7500 Afghan women, and aims at making them self reliant by providing them with the skill and knowledge they need to support themselves and their families and contribute actively to the rebuilding of their war-struck Afghanistan.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Afghan Women's Educational Center

is a non- profit, non-political organization of Afghan

women refugees. It aims to promote educational programs for Afghan refugee women and children, support women's groups mobilization, and in gaining self-reliance and empowerment.
--------------------------------------------------------

Women's Unity for Rehabilitation

is a non-governmental, non-political and

non-partisan women's NGO focusing on welfare assistance aiding the development of the women's condition in Afghanistan. The main objectives are: to assist war affected women by providing technical, social and vocational training; to participate actively in implementing projects for the welfare and well being of Afghan women; to identify and survey the most important projects with consultation of local authorities, elders, and specially women of each area; to have close and good relations with other NGOs working for the welfare of Afghans and the rehabilitation of Afghanistan; and to expand the range of services with collaboration of donors and work in all parts of Afghanistan.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Afghan Women's Welfare Department

a non-affiliated andn-profit Afghan women's NGO, was established in July 1989. The purpose was to deal with women-related emergency needs, which existed in providing services to the Afghan refugee women in Pakistan. AWWD, as a women's organization, strives and is established for the purpose of Afghan women's welfare in the refugee situation. The AWWD achieves its objectives by providing community based programs in refugee camps where the most vulnerable women live. The support AWWD provides to women is not only confined to these women as AWWD also provides educational and income generation services around rural areas of Peshawar for education Afghan women who are searching for such opportunities.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Children are what you first notice about the

Noor Education Center

as it is located in a school for orphans at the Kacha Gari camp. Here, NEN offers free classes in literacy, tailoring and the Koran to sixty orphans and thirty widows from the camp. To pay the teachers, NEN also allows others to join the classes for a small fee. There is a happy atmosphere in the center, as all involved feel lucky to be working here.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Afghan Institute of Learning -AIL
Afghan Professional Lawyer Women Association - APLWA
Afghan Women Capacity Building Program-AWCBP
Afghan Women Judge Association-AWJA
Afghan Women Resource Center(AWRC)
Afghan Women to Development(AWD)
Afghan Women Vocational Learning Center(AWVLC)
Afghan Women Vocational Skill Learning Center-AWVSLC
AFghan Women Voice in the World of Media-AWVWM
Afghan Women Welfare Department(AWWD)
Afghan Women's Educational Center(AWEC)
Afghan Women's Skill and Development Center(AWSDC)
Afghanistan Women Council(AWC)
Asia Women Organization(AWO)
Asia Women Organization-AWO
Azadi Community Service(ACS)
Bakhter Community Service(BCS)
DACAAR Sewing Center
Educational Center for Afghan Women-AWCA
Educational Center for poor Women and girls of Afghanistan(ECW)
Educational Center for Women(ECW)
Hambastagi Foundation Women's Affairs Office
Health and Dvelopment Center for Afghan Women(HDCAW)
Horizon Rehabilitation of Afghanistan(HRA)
Humanitarian Assistance for Women and Children of Afghanistan(HAWCA)
Humanitarian Assistance for Women(HAW)
Humanitarian Organization of Orphans and Widows of Afghanistan(HOOWA)
Humanitarian Services Organization for Women(HSOW)
Kabul Orthopedic Center(KOC)
Khedmat Rehabilitation and Development Organization(KRDO)
Message of Mashid Organization(MMO)
Noor Educational Center(NEC)
Pamir Training Center and Rehabilitation Organization(PTCRO)
Rabia-e-Balkhi Rehabilitation and Skill Building Agency(RRSA)
Shams Women's Needs and Help Organization(SWNHO)
Voice of Women Organization(VWO)
Watan Rehabilitation Development Center(WRDC)
Women Activity Development Center-WADC
Women for Women International-Afghanistan
Women High Association(WHA)
Women Unity Rehabilitation(WUR)
Women's Assistance Association(WAA)
Youth Orphan Cultural Organization (YOCO)

Find about member NGOs profiles and contacts here: AWN Members Directory