Freedom from poverty, violence and discrimination

SCA works for a better future for Afghanistan, where human rights are respected and all citizens live in dignity, enjoy equal opportunity and social justice.

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1 647 973

Patients consulted SCA health care facilities during 2019.

4 324

Children with disabilities attend ordinary school classes with the support from SCA during 2019.

58%

Out of 94 604 students in SCA schools are girls in the year 2019.

This is what we do

Healthcare

Throughout the year 2019, SCA received more than 1.6 million patient consultations, 49% of whom were women.

Community Governance

In 2019, SCA supported 522 communities in Wardak, Kunduz, Jawzjan, Balkh, Samangan and Nangarhar, providing advice on local council formation, representatives’ elections, development planning, budgeting, service delivery and advocacy

Rural Livelihood

In 2019, SCA facilitated 652 community-based savings groups, and 12 producer groups, providing training, microloans and investment strategy support.

Education

In 2019, 76,118 (girls 44,795; boys 31,323) of students enrolled in SCA-supported schools were attending schools. Up to 25% of all students attending CBE schools in Afghanistan were directly supported by the SCA Education Programme.

Our focus

We concentrate on most vulnerable groups in Afghanistan

Rural communities

We work to ensure that people in rural areas have the opportunity to support themselves and to control their own development.

Women

In recent years the situation has improved in many ways, but women still face considerable discrimination and violence.

People with disabilities

More than 23,000 people received physiotherapy. More than 13,000 received orthopedic devices by SCA services in 2018.

Children

About half of the Afghanistan’s population is children under the age 15 and over 3 million of children are faced with different dangers.

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Ghamai, an Afghan elder praises SCA's health services in Daimirdad district

15 July

Dr. Hafizullah Malang: “Our quality health services are very beneficial to communities”

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20 June

Let me do a simple economic calculation: in our Health Facilities (HFs) on monthly basis 1,800 normal child delivery take place, if a single normal

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Armed clashes force school closures in Ghazni

10 June

Since April 15, 2021, the district of Qarabagh, where SCA provides schooling, has been an active conflict zone.

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Students that they are working as physiotherapist

1 June

Nazifa Rahman Neyazi and Mohammad Yasar Mohammadi from Samangan are two participants of this program and it is more than one year that they are wor

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