CHI has been helping the Afghan people for over 30 years by working in refugee camps and helping indigenous groups of Afghans establish grassroots NGOs that will meet the health and educational needs of Afghans for years to come.

CHI has a long history of empowering Afghans through helping provide health and educational services, community building, and culturally sensitive programs.

Since 1996, CHI has worked closely with the Afghan Institute of Learning (AIL) under a technical assistance agreement and provides training and assistance with administration, finance, program strategy, fundraising, budgeting, and proposal writing.

AIL is now one of the largest Afghan women-led NGOs and provides health and education services to 350,000 women and children annually.

In the last several years, CHI has helped AIL quadruple it’s annual funding to $1 million.

CHI has also been working to build the capacity of AIL to procure its own funding. Last year AIL was able to raise more than 75% of its own funding. Building the capacity of AIL staff to manage book keeping and finances independently continues to be a high priority for CHI.

CHI representatives travel to Afghanistan and provide intensive training to AIL staff on various topics.

CHI staff have also provided advanced teacher training to AIL teacher training staff. AIL is now considered the pre-eminent teacher training organization for Afghans.

CHI has helped develop training curricula for culturally relevant human rights education, health education, and counseling materials for Afghans. CHI staff has trained AIL staff in human rights and helped AIL to successfully introduce human rights training to Afghan women in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

With CHI’s help, AIL has grown from a small, local Afghan women’s community-based organization with an annual budget of approximately $30,000 to a large, internationally recognized, non-governmental organization with a broad array of quality health and education services that are changing hundreds of thousands of lives for the better.

Now that it is an established NGO with a track record of success, AIL has begun to provide training and technical assistance to small local Afghan community-based organizations to help build the capacity of Afghanistan’s civil society sector.

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