Afghan Relief Network(ARN) is a not-for-profit organization that identifies, qualifies and supports specific relief projects in Afghanistan in the areas of education, healthcare and cultural restoration. ARN helps the people of Afghanistan work towards a stable, peaceful future through directing funds to outstanding NGOs -- organizations we know personally through having worked with them in-country. In addition, ARN is assisting with public awareness about Afghanistan's history, culture and current humanitarian needs.
Every penny that is donated to Afghan Relief Network goes directly to project execution. Because all of our activities are underwritten we have to administrative costs, no travel expenses and no salaries. All of our staff are volunteers.
Our current list of benefitting organizations includes:
-- Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University (cultural restoration and preservation),
-- A Little Help (projects to aid women and children),
-- Rabia Balkhi Hospital Project (maternity and newborn care).
Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University (ACKU) www.ackuaf.org
ACKU is proud to be integrally involved in the noteworthy steps Afghaniststan is taking toward nation building. It provides access to organized, often unique, high-quality knowledge and information on which to build an understanding of the social, economic, political and cultural dynamics of the Afghan society in the past, present and future. This is particularly crucial at a time when Afghanistan is rebuilding after 30 years of war, occupation and cultural assault.
ACKU acquires, collects and preserves information from a wide variety of sources on every aspect of Afghanistan with a special emphasis on rare documents.
Additionally, the Centre sponsors a community outreach program.
A Little Help is a charitable orgnization registered in the US IRS 501(c)3 and Afghanistan working to improve the lives of women and girls. Donation recipients have included schools, clinics, maternity wards, vocational classes and women in prison. Current projects include projects to help women and girls impacted by the continuing instability in the country.
The Rabia Balkhi Hospital Project was started in 2003 to improve conditions at Rabia Balkhi Hospital in Kabul. Since then the project has expanded to include other clinics and hospitals in Kabul and outside the capital. The entire emphasis is to provide medical supplies and medicines in order to improve maternity care and decrease infant and maternal mortality.
For the first five years RBH was sponsored by the Society of Afghan Engineers (SAE), an IRS 501(c)3 organization.
In 2008 Rabia Balkhi Hospital Project began working under the umbrella of A Little Help.
