- Winter Aid 2025 April 26, 2025
Dear Supporters,
As the year has unfolded, Aschiana’s impact continues to grow! In January of this year, Aschiana distributed 100 Winter Aid Packages to Aschiana’s most vulnerable students and their families. The packages included provisions such as flour, rice, tomato paste, beans, peas, sugar, salt, green tea, cooking oil, and soap.
Catch the thrilling play SELLING KABUL by Sylvia Khoury at Signature Theatre, and 20% ...
- “Killed, orphaned, sold: Afghan war takes brutal toll on children” March 19, 2019
This article from Reuters quotes Engineer Mohammad Yousef and mentions Aschiana’s work in Afghanistan.
KABUL/BALKH, Afghanistan (Reuters) – After fighting forced Mohammad Khan, a villager from the northern Afghanistan province of Sar-e Pul, to move his family to the more secure province of Balkh last year, they quickly fell on harder times.
Khan’s wife grew ...
- “Afghan girl competes in World Health Organization Painting Contest.” April 9, 2017
Aschiana student Samya Hamasi has ranked third in a painting competition among 200 children from Afghanistan.
The Mediterranean East Section of World Health Organization (WHO) organized the competition on depression in which thousands of people participated from across the world. The event took place on April 9, 2017, in a celebration of ...
- “Afghan Children, Deprived of School, Tell of Their Deepest Fears” March 23, 2017
Read more at New York Times.
- “Taliban Take an Afghan District, Sangin, That Many Marines Died to Keep” March 23, 2017
Read more at New York Times.
- “‘There is nothing here but dust’: What Afghan deportees face after years as refugees in Pakistan” March 19, 2017
Read more at The Washington Post.
- “An Afghan Mother’s Heartache: Three Sons Dead in a Day” February 14, 2017
Read more at New York Times.
- Diplomatic Spotlight: Aschiana Annual Benefit July 26, 2016
Read more at The Washington Diplomat
- “A former street child in Afghanistan, now giving back where he found help” April 14, 2016
Read more at The Christian Science Monitor
- “Afghanistan’s quietly forceful first lady” February 24, 2015
Read more at The Washington Post
- “Marcus: A step forward by Afghanistan’s first lady” February 24, 2015
Read more at The Houston Chronicle
- Smart Women, Smart Power: The Future of Afghanistan February 18, 2015
Listen to the audio at the Center for Strategic & International Studies. Or, watch the video here.
- “New Afghan Government Can Change the Fate of Country’s Most Vulnerable” October 13, 2014
Read more at Huffington Post
- “First Lady Rula Ghani aims to elevate Afghanistan’s women” October 12, 2014
Read more in the L.A. Times
- Operation Silver Lining July 7, 2014
For the second winter, the Aschiana Foundation has purchased Mylar blankets for distribution in and around Kabul with life saving results.
- “Laura Bush: Afghan women’s gains are at risk” November 14, 2013
Read more at The Washington Post
- “Love in Afghanistan” Fundraiser for Aschiana Foundation on October 27, 2013 September 19, 2013
In collaboration with Arena Stage, we are pleased to invite you to Charles Randolph Wright’s new play, “Love in Afghanistan,” on Sunday, October 27, 2013 at 7:30pm.
- Washington – the Afghan Youth Orchestra at the Embassy of Italy at an event sponsored by the Aschiana Foundation February 6, 2013
Read more at Ambasciata d’Italia Washington DC
- “How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Start in Kabul” February 1, 2013
Read more at the New York Times
- “Afghan Camps Receive Winter Aid, but Officials Say It Isn’t Enough” December 30, 2012
Read more at the New York Times
- “Winter’s Deadly Bite Returns to Refugee Camps of Kabul” December 29, 2012
Read more at the New York Times
- “Long Neglected, Camps in Kabul Get a Deluge of Aid” February 12, 2012
Read more at the New York Times
- “In Grip of Cold, Afghan Family Buries 8th Child” February 8, 2012
Read more at the New York Times
- “Driven Away by a War, Now Stalked by Winter’s Cold” February 3, 2012
Read more at the New York Times
- “Afghan students learn to read with folk tales” December 11, 2011
Read more at the Washington Post
- “Sent home after injury, an Army Reserve general still helps Afghan schoolchildren.” January 14, 2011
Read more at the Tampa Bay Times
- “Are children safer in Kabul than in London or New York?” November 22, 2010
Read more at BBC
- “Sharp Criticism After NATO Official Portrays Kabul as Safe for Children” November 22, 2010
Read more at the New York Times
- “War, corruption swell number of Afghan street kids” September 6, 2010
Read more at Reuters
- “Helping The Children of Afghanistan” July 1, 2010
Read more at OnPatrol
- “The harsh lives of Kabul’s street children” May 24, 2010
Read more at BBC
- “Children at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS in Afghanistan” December 1, 2008
Read more at UNICEF
- “Afghan Girl Begs for Bread, Prays for Help” November 14, 2008
Read more at CNN
- “Opening Hearts, Wallets” May 31, 2007
Read more at the Washington Times
- “Go Fly a Kite” May 29, 2006
Read more at the Washington Times
- “A Bitter Lesson in Capitalism” June 19, 2005
For Kabul street urchins, an overcrowded school is their only hope. Now that is disappearing too.
- “Killed, orphaned, sold: Afghan war takes brutal toll on children” March 19, 2019
