Mate­r­nal and Child Health Cen­ter

We have been sup­port­ing child­ren in Afgha­ni­stan sin­ce Novem­ber 2021. We con­cluded our emer­gen­cy aid pro­gram for the Indi­ra Gan­dhi Child­ren’s Hos­pi­tal in Kabul in the spring of 2024 after more than two years.

Despi­te a degree of sta­bi­liza­ti­on in urban are­as, the health­ca­re sys­tem in rural Afgha­ni­stan remains dys­func­tion­al and urgen­tly depen­dent on sup­port from inter­na­tio­nal donors. Accor­ding to a recent stu­dy by the World Health Orga­niza­ti­on, over 18 mil­li­on peo­p­le in Afgha­ni­stan still lack access to basic medi­cal care. The lack of medi­cal care hits women and child­ren par­ti­cu­lar­ly hard. Within a very short peri­od, mate­r­nal and child mor­ta­li­ty in Afgha­ni­stan has risen shar­ply again. One of the main pro­blems is that the few health faci­li­ties in the peri­phery are neither well-equip­ped nor do they have suf­fi­ci­ent finan­cial resour­ces. Peo­p­le must the­r­e­fo­re tra­vel long distances to recei­ve ade­qua­te tre­at­ment. Often, this help is not free of char­ge, mea­ning most fami­lies can­not afford it at all or must go into immense debt.