In June, 2007, we donated $5,010 to support some of RAWA's education initiatives in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
In an attempt to make our foundation as transparent as possible, we have included below the details of how these funds will
be used.
$3,160 will pay for one year's stationery and reference books for the 445 children at RAWA's
nine orphanages in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and $1,850 will buy one year's worth of stationery, reference books,
and textbooks for 58 students at RAWA's school for Afghan refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan.
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From: Andeisha [mailto:andeisha@rawa.org]
Sent:
Fri 5/11/2007 3:38 AM
To: William Oppenheim
Cc: Sonali Kolhatkar
Subject:
Information about Volunteer and RAWA Orphanages
Dear Willy,
As promised to send you the school budget of RAWA orphanages, here it is the the summery:
|
|
| Cost Detail | Orphanages in Pakistan (165 children) | Orphanages in Afghanistan (280 children) | Total (PRs) | Total (USD) |
|
| 1 | Stationary | 45,000 |
68,000 |
113,000 | $2,260 |
|
| 2 | School Uniform including shoe | 198,000 | 378,000 | 576,000 | $11,520 |
|
| 3 | School bags | 49,500 | 84,000 | 133,500 | $2,670 |
|
| 4 | Reference books | 15,000 | 30,000 | 45,000 | $900 |
| Subtotal: | 867,500 | $17,350 |
One
of the successful projects we had so far was the orphanages program. Since its inception in 1977, RAWA's top priority
was to help the orphans and poor children by providing them shelter and education. Our martyred founding leader, Meena opened
the first orphanage with over 500 children in early 80s in Quetta (Pakistan) when millions of Afghan were fleeing
Afghanistan to escape the Russian agression.
We have helped and educated
thousands of children, mostly orphans through out these years. We have tried to help these children grow up as modern and
civilized human beings that could play positive role in the reconstruction of their country. I strongly recommend you to read
this article about RAWA orphanages:http://www.rawa.org/orphanages.htm and please view the related slide show on our
website:http://www.rawa.org/orphanage.htm .
[...]
Best regards,
Andeisha
From: Andeisha [mailto:andeisha@rawa.org]
Sent: Wed 5/23/2007 9:17 AM
To: William
Oppenheim
Subject: Re: Helping RAWA Schools
Dear Willy,
Sorry for the
delayed reply.
We have 5 orphanages in Pakistan and four in Afghanistan. The 'reference
books' are those books which the students will use for their research, assignment or projects. Most of the text books
provided by school are not rich enough in content and many students are interested to study more on specific topics.
Our school in refugee camp is for all students who live either with their families
in the refugee camps or in RAWA hostel. All the students are Afghan refugee and majority of them belong to extremely
poor backgrounds whose fathers go daily to the near by cities to do harsh jobs for a low income. Those students
who live in the hostel are mostly orphan or belong to families that can't afford to feed them, therefore, as compare
to other students they deserve more attention and help.
As the amount
of your contribution is less than a price of a vehicle for the orphanage, we want this money goes to the stationary of the
orphanages and the hostel.
We will definitely send you the photos of the children
with the items we purchased by your fund.
Best regards,
Andeisha