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Workers digging trenches in dry landscape

Webinar: Tackling Afghanistan’s Climate Emergency

News SCA is hosting a webinar discussing effects of climate change, COP29, and ways for Afghanistan to access climate funding.

Midwifery students practising on a doll

Ban on medical training for women threatens lives in Afghanistan

Health care SCA urges the IEA to reconsider the ban and invest in quality education for female health professionals.

Landscape in Samangan province

SCA calls for climate financing for Afghanistan

News Afghanistan is being denied access to the Green Climate Fund, a crucial source of financing for developing nations to adapt to the effects of climate change. The consequences are born by most vulnerable.

SCA hands over activities to Norwegian organisation

News The entire disability programme previously run by SCA has been taken over by NAC.

Families of children with disabilities concerned about suspension of SCA

News Prior to the suspension of SCA activities, dozens of children with clubfoot and Development Dysplasia of the Hip (DDH) received physiotherapy services daily in the northeastern provinces. Now they cannot get the services they urgently need.

Without SCA’s support, Nargis has lost hope

News Nargis, 14, has a hearing impairment. Her father, Mohammad Hussain, suffers from paraplegia, and his legs are paralysed. Both of them used to receive support from the Swedish Committee of Afghanistan (SCA), but since the suspension of SCA’s activities in July 2023, they haven’t received any further assistance. Now they are worried about their future.

“SCA saved our family from darkness.”

News 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.

Suspension of SCA leaves thousands without orthopedic aids

News Habibullah has been waiting for a prosthetic leg since SCA’s activities were suspended.

SCA pauses all activities in Afghanistan

News The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan is pausing all its activities in Afghanistan. This is in response to a decree from the Islamic Emirate Afghanistan (IEA) which called for the suspension of all "Sweden’s activities".