About — Afghan Women’s Support Charity Foundation

01 — The organization

About Organization: AWSCF

“Sympathy is the word for the recognition of humanity.”

Afghan Women’s Support Charity Foundation was founded to help needy families, women and orphans in all parts of the country. The charity is a non-profit, non-political and non-governmental organization that is not affiliated with any political group. Its purpose is to attract donations and raw materials from government agencies and foreign agencies to help those who are economically in need, and to help in the educational and cultural fields. The foundation wants to bridge the gap between the public-spirited and the penurious, bringing the voice of the oppressed to the people and authorities who want to help in this area.

Its main purpose is to serve the country according to the charter of this charity.

The founder of the foundation is working to expand it throughout the country. After many years of working at various charities, the founder of Afghan Women’s Support Charity Foundation decided to act independently to help those in need and to work with the help of more charities. As a result, she decided to establish this charitable foundation.

As has been seen for many years, Afghanistan has been a war-torn country, with people living below the poverty line and the needy unable to find a way to make a living. That is why this charity acts on its slogan — sympathy is the word for the recognition of humanity — and wants to sympathize with the needy: disadvantaged women and destitute children.

Afghan Women’s Support Charity Foundation: the foundation was started with the goal of providing economic, cultural and educational assistance, to help and save the poor from misery.

02 — The founder’s profile

Ms. Shamila Hassanzai

Founder of Afghan Women’s Support Charity Foundation

Ms. Shamila Hassanzai, daughter of Al-Haj Mohammad Ashraf Hassanzai, was born in 1996 into a Pashtun, moderate, scholarly and open-minded family in Kabul. Her family later emigrated to Pakistan because of the civil wars.

Ms. Hassanzai is a lawyer who successfully completed her bachelor’s degree in Kabul. She has always fought to defend Afghan women’s rights, which is why she founded Afghan Women’s Support Charity Foundation: to cooperate in solving the problems of needy widows and to let their voices be heard all over the world, so that philanthropists and other individuals may help them. She also runs an embroidered clothing company for women.

Ms. Hassanzai has worked with both Afghan and foreign organizations to assist Afghan women in different provinces and villages of Afghanistan. She volunteered for two years with AR-Japan in support of Afghan women, and has also worked with USAID and AWDP as a master trainer on Afghan women’s rights.

She is always ready to make an effort to make Afghan women happy and to pave the way for them to take advantage of the human rights they deserve. She is honored to serve women with all honesty and humanity.

“Sympathy is the word for the recognition of humanity.”

— Ms. Shamila Hassanzai

03 — Goals

Goals and Objectives

Afghan Women’s Support Charity Foundation started working with the goals of providing economic, cultural and educational assistance in order to help poor and needy women and rescue them from poverty and misery.

Objectives

01Respecting and observing the rules of the holy religion of Islam and the country’s legislation
02Trying to improve women’s situation and enhance their educational, social and economic level
03Helping widows whose husbands were martyred in the military
04Providing free learning opportunities for unaccompanied children
05Striving to serve the disabled, needy families and martyrs’ families by providing free technical courses
06Cash donations for the disabled, needy families and martyrs’ families

Mission

01Covering poor and needy women in the country
02Covering unaccompanied and needy children in the country
03Covering the economic, cultural and educational problems of needy families in the country
04Covering poor students
05Covering the families of martyrs and disabled members of the security forces in the country
06Covering street-seller children

Values

01Defending and supporting the country’s national values
02Defending and supporting the families of the country’s martyrs and disabled
03Defending and economically supporting needy Afghan people
04Defending and upholding the rights of street children
05Defending and supporting patients with heart disease