Women Abuse in Afghanistan - What Can *you* do to Help?

For many years the world has been blind to the plight of Afghani women, and deaf to the pleas of RAWA* for help to improve their lot. This article describes some of the ways that you can make a difference.

Many of RAWA's educational, health care and economic empowerment projects have been severely curtailed because of a lack of funds. Their website has details of how you can make a financial contribution. Or you could hold a fund-raising event in aid of the women of Afghanistan or lobby potential donors and aid organizations to help fund their efforts.

RAWA's mobile health-care units provide an essential service to Afghani women, and their teams are always in need of medicines as well as of every other kind of medical supply. Our world must also pressure the Afghan government to lift the inhumane restrictions that prevent women from accessing even basic health care.

Afghani women, and especially the country's thousands of widows, need to learn trades so that they can work to support their families. RAWA wants to establish training courses and provide start-up capital so that these women can become economically independent. They would welcome any contributions or ideas that you can offer to help them attain this ideal.

They also need people from the free world to help them publicize, protest and bring to an end, the criminal policies of the Taliban that rob the Afghan women of the right to earn their own bread.

RAWA is well aware of the importance of computer literacy and Internet access for the empowerment of its country's women. It welcomes donations of computers and training programmes for use by their refugee women and children (use of the Internet is banned in Afghanistan). The organization maintains a comprehensive website and needs help to translate its articles into many world languages.

Filming and photography have been banned in Afghanistan so smallest size video cameras and camcorders are also needed so that the atrocities against Afghani women can be recorded in secret.

Teachers are needed, especially to teach the women English. Books, school supplies and educational materials are necessary for the (illegal!) education of the girls and women. You can help by donating production and copying equipment; you can help with writing and translating articles for RAWA's booklets and publications, or by selling and distributing these products.

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