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Articles
Below follows a selection of the latest articles from all
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Kabul,
March 8, 2010
The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan celebrated the 8th of March “International Women’s Day” at all its 10 offices in Afghanistan today. SCA has 5500 employees in Afghanistan, 1283 are women. They were given an appreciation letters for the hard work they carry out, especially in the field work.
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Jalalabad,
March 6, 2010
Breshna, 18, from Jalalabad was two years old when her family realized that she had polio. Due to her disability she has never been to a school, but Breshna learned tailoring at a vocational training of the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan. Now she has her own tailoring business at her home and is voluntarily teaching other disabled in the business.
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Press release from ACBAR,
February 5, 2010
Over the past few weeks, inaccurate information regarding the disbursement of aid money in Afghanistan has been circulated (ref: Pajhwok Afghan News 26 of January 2010). Therefore, The Agency Co-ordinating Body for Afghan Relief (ACBAR) in consultation with its members would like to highlight some key facts and figures in light of the ongoing discussion.
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Kabul,
December 18, 2009
At an SPF training in Parwan in 2009 local NGOs received training in
proposal writing and budget planning.
Civil Society (CS) is commonly known as the arena in between families, private companies, government, institutions and typically consist of a group of people that come together in order to achieve their common goals and visions for the goods of a bigger group.
SCA’s Small Project Fund (SPF) aims to strengthen local capacity and to respond to initiatives from civil society organisations, increase its interaction with civil society and try out new partnership activities with civil society organisations.
The project is funded through Swedish Forum Syd.
Deadline for applications is January 24, 2010.
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Kabul,
October 21, 2009
The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan held its autumn management workshop of the year 2009, in which the strategy for the years 2010-2013 was in focus.
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Kabul,
October 1, 2009
The Minister of Public Health Dr. Sayed Mohammad Amin Fatimie and SCA
country director Anders Fange after signing the BPHS contracts for Samangan
and Saripul.
As of October 1 the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan SCA) will manage Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) projects in Samangan and Saripul provinces in Northern Afghanistan.
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Kabul,
August 4, 2009
Five Physical Therapists from the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) were amongst the 17 physical therapists graduating on August 4 at the Physical Therapy Institute (PTI) in Kabul.
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Reducing mother and child mortality
Kabul,
July 22, 2009
In recent years the number of pregnant women in rural areas of Afghanistan who received assistance from a doctor, nurse or midwife for safe delivery increased from 6% to 18.9%. In this issue of the SCA Newsletter we visit the SCA midwifery training in Wardak.
Click here to get to the archive section were you can download the newsletter as a PDF.
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Afghans conquer highest mountain peak
Kabul,
July 20, 2009
For the first time ever two Afghan climbers have reached the summit of Afghanistan’s highest mountain.
The two climbers, Amruddin and Malang, reached the 7,492 metres summit of Noshaq in the Hindu Kush in the Wakhan, Badakhshan province on Sunday, 19 July 2009 and unfurled the Afghan flag.
As the world’s 52nd highest peak, Noshaq is the second highest independent peak of the Hindu Kush after Tirich Mir in Pakistan at 7,690 metres above sea level.
Photo: the team pictured during training in France.
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Kabul,
July 7, 2009
The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan handed over two newly built schools in Sholgara district of Balkh province on 6th of July 09.
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