Nooruddin is a resident of a small village in the Badakhshan province, where many community members have been employed in Cash-for-Work projects by Uplift and Community Driven Development Organization (CDDO) to rehabilitate a road and build a protection wall to prevent future damage. Nooruddin says the road has already provided abundant benefits for himself and his fellow community members.

“Before working on this project, we were in great trouble because of unemployment. We have physical fitness and really enjoy working, but there was no work to do.”

“I hope for my children to become leaders who support the community, for my family to have a well-equipped house, and for my village to have a market for business to support my family and others in need.”

It doesn’t have to be Earth Day to care about the environment. Join our team at Uplift to work towards a more sustainable Afghanistan and prevent climate migration, today.

Our Cash-for-Work projects in Afghanistan, in collaboration with CDDO, are designed alongside community members with the goal of benefiting the community as a whole.

As the world watches, Afghan women continue to disappear from public life; stripped of their basic human rights, freedom of movement, and the right to earn a livelihood to feed themselves and their families.

Uplift’s Director of Humanitarian Relief, Hila Nawa-Alam, was published in PeaceRep this week sharing Uplift’s methods for delivering aid to Afghanistan’s most vulnerable populations with the help of community development councils.

Let this eid serve as a reminder of the strength in unity as we find ways to share kindness and compassion with friends, loved ones, and those around the world who need it most.

On World Refugee Day, we celebrate the courage of refugees worldwide while also recognizing that nobody chooses to be a refugee; that this status is one of necessity, and that we must work together to support and be compassionate towards those who face no option but to leave their home in the pursuit of freedom and security.

Cash-for-Work is a short term intervention to provide temporary employment to public projects to the most vulnerable segments of the population. The projects incentivize individuals to improve their own communities from within.

Last year, Uplift piloted a Cash-for-Work program in 2 provinces in Afghanistan with great success in collaboration with our partner organization, Community Driven Development Organization (CDDO). This year, in an effort to contribute to reducing poverty, we have expanded the program to 12 provinces.

Since August 2021, millions of girls and women inside Afghanistan have been denied the most basic of human rights—an education. Afghanistan is currently the only country in the world that denies education past the 6th grade for girls. The potential loss of generations of educated girls and women will have a lasting and devastating impact on the development of both women and Afghan society at large.

Uplift’s micro-grant program focuses on developing projects that empower women to become economically independent. Uplift is supporting a project run by our partner organization Hope for Afghan Women that provides vending carts and business training/mentorship to female-headed households.

Baseera, 13, fled Afghanistan with her family last year and started attending one of Uplift’s schools for refugee children in Pakistan. An aspiring artist, she immediately wanted to get involved in the art program at her school.

Happy Earth Day! Today is a reminder of how necessary it is for us to be mindful of how our actions impact our earth, and the importance of working together to protect it.

Eid Mubarak to all!

4 million children under the age of five are malnourished in Afghanistan.

Ramadan Mubarak to all.

Happy Nowruz! Today marks the beginning of a new year, the arrival of spring, and the rebirth of nature. On this day, we celebrate the renewal of hope and compassion. May your year be filled with joy and good health.

As we look ahead and develop new projects in 2023, we also want to take a moment to thank our supporters and local partners who helped us accomplish some great things with and for Afghans—who have persevered in the face of crisis—in the last year.