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FROM MARY'S NEWSLETTER 1996/97

In addition to starting and running the gift shop, we have done or in the process of doing the following:

-Giving cooking lessions for one widow who will run the bakery section of the gift shop eventually.

-Bought a solar oven for one widow and found a donor for a solar ovenf or another.

-Ordered dolls from two widows and their daughters for Save the Children's

Tribute to Mary

This video comes from Mary's archives and is truly a work of art! It begins a typical bike ride through dirt streets. You are invited to an underground school for girls, vist the children's hospital and watch a boy's delight as he is able to pump clean water from a well in his backyard.

Very nicely narrated for your enjoyment.

Approx. 8 minutes.

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-Collected a list of abouth 140 widows from those found begging on the streets ...

-Gave seed money ($50) to a young man to start his own bike repair business.

-Paid for a necessary operation for a poor woman (Afs 320,000 = $20)

-Began special sewing project with three widows -- chair and sofa cushions and winter tambons.

-Facilitated interviews with Afghan women for three different journalists (Swedish, Canadian, and British).

Gave money to a widow in Paghman for plastic for windows.

-Bought wood and stoves for seven needy widows.

-Added security and special interest meetings with other NGOs.

- Made personal visits to embassies in Kabul (French, Turkish, Indian, Indonesian) for funding PARSA's projects.

-Provided money for the required chadris for staff volunteers so they could still come to work ($10-$20 each).

-Employed a widow to teach other widows how to make soap.

-Distributed $1000 from friends of GTZ in Germany to eleven widows.

-Helped facilitate HABITAT's community awareness and income generating projects for women.

-Helped AREA distribute 65 sewing machines from Zakat funds donated by the London Muslim Aid group.

KABUL ACTIVITIES IN 1999

RELIEF: Your donations go mainly to support the office which in turn was able to help 48 widows get ration cards for GMS food, to transport 46 people to clinics or hospitals for treatment; to distribute $2850 including $800 donated by a friend of IAM, to 195 widows (the widows have told us they would rather have money to buy the food they need); to distribute clothing donated by Shelter Now and ICRC to 132 families; to distribute 8 tons of flour, laundry soap and candles from ICRC to 184 widows; to give sewing machines to 10 widows who had been forced to sell their own machines, and to deliver 8 cartons of medicines from KidRelief organization to Allauddin and Tahia Maskan orphanages. This doesn't include the almost daily donations of small change given to begging women on the street.

EDUCATION: Sixty male orphans studied electrical basics for seven months and will complete their training in 2000; 390 female students got another year further ahead in their school studies; 80 widows and poor women got into the wool business and are still learning the fine points of combing and spinning so that eventually they will be on their own in a life sustaining activity. Carpet-making and gilam-weaving demand huge quantities of yarn and warp thread. Thirty widows took the embroidery machine training and at this moment about half are mastering the skill; fifteen teenagers learned tailoring in a 6-month course, and our computer operator cum English teacher has got the male PARSA staff engaged in English lessons while a Dari teacher is bringing three young men into literacy. The USAID funding for its three projects came to $71,760, Suraya Sadeed's Help the Afghan Children supported the home schools with a $9000 donation continuing from 1998.

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