ENGAGEMENTS IN AFGHANISTAN
World’s poor, displaced must not be forgotten
* Reducing Mine Victims
* Reinforce Afghan National Police
* Help strengthen the Afghan governments institutional capacity to deliver core services and promote economic growth, enhancing confidence of Kandaharis in their government.
* Combating POLIO
* Rehabilitation of wells and its irrigation system
Two-day humanitarian trip to Afghanistan in October 2008, visiting poverty-stricken families, and reinforcing the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees engagements.
The courage, resilience and quiet dignity of returnee families rebuilding their lives against the kind of adversity few of us can imagine shows the human spirit at its best,i call for more international support for the returnees as winter approaches.
According to the UN, more than 5 million Afghans have returned home since the fall of the Taliban regime in late 2001. Another 3 million registered Afghans are still in exile in Pakistan and Iran.
Save vulnerable poeple…
What We Can Achieve in Afghanistan?
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