“SCA saved our family from darkness.”
Wazir Mohammad Dilsoz and six of his siblings are visually impaired. They used to get support from the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA), but after the organisation’s activities were suspended, their future is uncertain.
Saleh Mohammad’s family, almost all of whom are visually impaired.
“SCA saved our family from darkness.”
Wazir Mohammad Dilsoz and six of his siblings are visually impaired. They used to get support from the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA), but after the organisation’s activities were suspended, their future is uncertain.
The siblings learned to read and use Braille with the help of the SCA. Wazir Mohammad Dilsoz, who is also a memorizer of the Holy Quran, has been employed by SCA since 2007 and his income has been essential to support the family.
“For 17 years, I worked as a Braille trainer with SCA and tried to teach Braille to school teachers so that visually impaired children like me could easily be educated. SCA saved our family from darkness. They helped me to work and my sisters and brothers to study,” Wazir Mohammad Dilsoz says.
He is now very worried about his future. Unemployment is widespread in Afghanistan, and he says no one gives jobs to persons with disabilities like him easily.
“I hope the IEA will allow SCA to operate so that the persons with disabilities are not deprived of their services. I also want SCA’s donors to support the persons with disabilities,” he says.
SCA’s programme for rehabilitation and assistance to persons with disabilities previously operated in 14 provinces. SCA assisted approximately 42,000 individuals with disabilities in 2023 alone.
In July last year, a decree from the IEA suspended SCA’s activities following the burnings of the Holy Quran in Sweden, events to which SCA has absolutely no connection. All activities have since been suspended.