New Nutrition Assessment Report

With our new partnership with the Global Nutrition Cluster, AfD is taking its first steps towards scaling up nutrition in our health programs. The new report by AfD’s Public Health Nutritionist Alison Farnham, presents the current situation regarding the nutritional assessment of children under 5 years old at the Shahid Abdul Razaq Comprehensive Health Centre in Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Quarterly Report: School for Street Children

The Quarterly Report of our School for Street Children in Kabul is out! With a bigger classroom and more school equipment, the number of children attending our school doubled to 42 between July and September 2017. In our classes, the children are taught basic skills through playful means, while their basic needs are accommodated in the curriculum. One of the highlights was the Eid-el-Kébir festival in August which was celebrated at our school, where the children were given gifts in form of food and clothes.

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1st Round of Midwifery Training in Panjsher

AfD conducted the first round of its midwives capacity building programme in Panjsher province in November 2017. Twenty midwives from different districts of the province were brought together to the center of Panjsher where they could enhance their knowledge on specific pregnancy and birth-related issues, for instance Eclampsia, Pre-eclampsia, managing third-stage labour, and newborn care.

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AfD’s Annual Christmas Fundraising Sale

It is with great pleasure that we would like to invite you to our “traditional” Christmas Fundraising Sale on Tuesday, November 28th 2017. The sale takes place from 9am to 6pm in the lobby of the Geneva Ecumenical Center located at Route de Ferney 150 in Geneva. The end of the year is rapidly approaching and we are therefore eager to accomplish our final objectives that we had set for 2017. In order to achieve these aims, both human and financial means are still necessary and we hope to complete the existing means via our Christmas Fundraising Sale.

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Communities’ Fair 2017 of the International School Geneva

AfD participated for the first time in the annual Communities’ Fair of the International School of Geneva on 18 October 2017. The International school of Geneva encourages its students to engage in various activities, including charitable causes as part of the curriculum. Every year, the school holds a Communities’ Fair, where student groups, companies, organizations and NGOs are invited to present themselves to the students.

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