Anyone? Is There Anyway to Helpt Afghan Women? Any Organization?

[leftyladyfrommo]

Does anyone know if there are organizations that help Afghan women? Is there anyway to just take an Afghan widow to help out?

I just watched Cnn's Lifting the Veil yesterday and my first reaction was that maybe there was a way to actually give support to one of the widows. Their lives are so awful. Is their anyway to help?

[EFerrari]

1. RAWA is one I can think of. They have a wetbsite. n/

[Captain Hilts]

2. I thought Jay Leno's wife ran one. nt

[coffeenap]

3. Women for Women--they started in Bosnia during that war:

http://womenforwomen.org/

[jwirr]

4. You might look into Kiva.Org they work in a lot of countries.

[SoCalDem]

5. Probably not.. Anything they would receive would be taken from them

by a husband or father..

The sad thing is that in the 50's Afghanistan was not at all like now.. A woman made a documentary ( I forget the name of it now) about how it used to be.. She wore western clothing as a young woman, went to college, and the desolate areas of the country were once productive agricultural areas.. She interspersed the documentary footage with photographs & family films of the same places as she traveled around..

Fundamentalist religion can and does destroy countries.. It probably takes 3-4 times longer to get rid of that thinking, than it does to adopt it..

The men in charge will NEVER willingly give up powers they have now..