Afghanistan – Relief Aid

We provided food, fuel for winter heating, and rent for 8 families displaced by conflict in Afghanistan.

Community Center

We provided funds for the construction for a community center in North Africa.

Small Business

We provided for mechanical vocational training for an unemployed head of household. 

East Africa – Relief Aid

We provided critical food aid, medications and debt relief to 20 destitute families in East Africa.

Kenya – Education

We provided sports training for young men, modeling good sportsmanship and morals.

Lebanon – Medical Aid

We provided and delivered 80 pounds of critical medication to doctors in Lebanon.

Levant – Children’s Projects

We provided winter clothing and shoes for 50 children in the Middle East.

Levant – Agriculture

We supported agricultural development and farming and livestock projects in the Middle East.

Uganda – Relief Aid

We provided monthly income for a refugee family of 4 who were destitute.

Field mentoring by our Field Director

We supported the training and consultation efforts of our field director as he oversees and assists local community developers in 10 countries to increase their resilience by assisting them in ideation, conflict management, problem solving and the management and evaluation of their projects.

In May of 2020, Sawa Foundation partnered with RAHO-SOMALIA to help provide support to an IDP (Internally Displaced People) camp in Mogadishu that had been without aid since 2019. At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, this community faced even more challenges due to mandates that restricted their movement.  Heads of households had no way to find work in order to earn a living for their families.  Many children were limited to 2 meals a day, while adults had only 1.

Sawa Foundation provided funds for a total of 10 families that met certain criteria based on their vulnerability. (Ex: female headed households, elderly led households faced with illness or permanent disability, families with disabled children, level of food insecurity, etc.)  These funds were used to purchase rice, flour, oil, pasta and milk powder to help sustain these families.

Life for single mothers in Afghanistan has always been marked by stigma, poverty and discrimination.  However, with the Taliban in control, their situation has become much more desperate.

Rachel*, a 35-year-old widow living in Afghanistan is renting a room in her father-in-law’s home for her and her four children to share.  Her children sleep on the floor. While her kids were attending school, she was earning a living by cleaning a small clinic, but it barely provided for their daily needs.  Then the Taliban decided that women were not allowed to work in an office where men work so she lost her job.  Many nights they have nothing to eat and go to bed hungry.  One of the key health concerns in Afghanistan is acute malnutrition.  In 2021, 14 million Afghans were noted to be deficient in food supplies, with 95% of households not eating enough.

Sawa Foundation would like to provide $150 of monthly support for one year for Rachel so that she can adequately provide for the needs of her children. This amount supplies food and covers school tuition fees.  We will evaluate the effectiveness of this aid program by following up with this mom about the children´s weight gain, school progress and overall health.

Tammy* is raising her kids on her own since their father abandoned them.  Tammy provides for her family by rug weaving.  Her teenage son also works for a tailor and receives a small weekly salary equivalent to $10 USD.  However, their combined income is still lacking to cover their basic needs.  We would like to provide monthly support to Tammy and her children, including food and school tuition fees and to purchase clothes and books for the children’s school.

Rachel and Tammy have a business idea.  $4,500 would allow them to start two by-women for-women shops selling used clothes.

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