The effectiveness of community and family-based approaches to disability awareness and support in Afghanistan
Afghanistan has one of the highest proportions of people with disability globally. At least one in five households contain an adult or child with a physical, sensory or psychosocial disability. More than one million Afghans also have amputated limbs, or experience mobility, visual or hearing disabilities. The prevalence of disability in Afghanistan is due to a myriad of problems caused by decades of conflict and instability. This includes buried land mines, and artillery shelling, disease, poor healthcare and acute poverty.
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ECI Spring Newsletter 2022
Community-based Disability Support & Awareness Program Since launching the Community-based disability awareness and support program, CBDASP, in January, ECI has supported 329 families in Kabul,…
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ECI Winter 2022 Newsletter
The last several months have been so difficult for all of us who love and care about Afghanistan and who have worked hard the past couple decades to bring about positive changes. The exodus of talent, rising…
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Latest Newsletter 2021
The unexpected events in Afghanistan in August led the entire Afghan nation and people, and those working alongside them, into crisis mode over the past few months, including all of us at Enabled Children…
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Spring Newsletter 2021
Dear Friends of ECI, I am writing this note to you the first week of May 2021, a historic time for Afghanistan, the start of the withdrawal of all foreign forces from the country after 20 years. There will be challenges for the…
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Normalising special needs: the Kabul school offering hope
Laughter and excited chatter burst out of the colourfully painted classrooms. In a quiet garden schoolhouse amid the jam-packed Afghan capital, Kabul, pupils run around, study and play in the country’s first official school for children with disabilities.
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ECI Winter Newsletter Jan 2021
Classes in session at Kabul’s first school for children with disabilities of all types! Over the past few months, our team in Kabul has been working tirelessly to get our newest initiative off the ground. They’ve been painting…
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Fall 2020 Newsletter
This reporting period, ECI initiated three sustainable projects and disbursed our final COVID emergency food relief effort to 13 families (72 individuals) living in poverty who have a family member with a disability…
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Summer Newsletter 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic continued to affect Afghanistan this quarter; thus, we continued our COVID-19 relief work via the Frozan Fund. In April, ECI converted the Frozan Fund into an emergency relief fund for families…
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