YOUR Donations at Work!

(c) Jinane Saad/MSF

Your donations in 2025 contributed over $130,000 to programs in Afghanistan providing education, healthcare, resettlement/refugee assistance to women and children and emergency aid to vulnerable Afghans.  

The emergency relief mitigates widespread food insecurity—impacting the majority of the population—and expands access to vital healthcare services.

YOUR support at-a-glance

Exploring the impact of your support in more detail

Emergency Aid

Photo credit: UNHCR/Oxygen Empire Media Production

Eastern Afghanistan Earthquake:

• Magnitude 6.0 earthquake occurred near midnight on August 31, 2025

• Mainly impacted Nangarhar, Laghman, Nuristan and Kunar provinces

• More than 2,000 people died

• More than 3,600 people were injured

• At least 6,300 homes were damaged or destroyed

Photo credit: UNHCR/Oxygen Empire Media Production. - Photos are from village in Kunar region after earthquake

Response:

• UNHCR immediately deployed 20 emergency assessment teams alongside 15 mobile teams

• Teams provided emergency shelter, essential non-food items such as tents, blankets, and cooking sets, as well as food, healthcare, clean water, and sanitation services

• UNHCR and its partners distributed 13,500 relief items to 34,000 people across 9 villages in Kunar

Maternal and Child Healthcare

Photo credit: Nava Jamshidi

Stories from the field:

• At a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supported community health facility in Jalmish, a remote district in Bamyan Province, Afghanistan.

• An MSF midwife visits Khadija—who has a fever and cough caused by pneumonia—to deliver critical healthcare to this remote area

Photo credit: Logan Turner/MSF

• At an MSF-supported subhealth centre in Bamyan Province

• Alisina, a three-year-old boy, arrived from a nearby village and is being treated for severe pneumonia

• Due to the severity of Alisina's pneumonia, he was referred to a local district hospital for further treatment

• MSF paid the cost of the transfer to assist the patient and their family with the financial burdens associated with getting healthcare in remote areas

While the depth and breadth of need in Afghanistan can seem daunting, it also means that every time aid is provided, a family is impacted in a profound way. Your support, kindness, and generosity have allowed us to provide essential and often life-saving aid.

"Be like a river in generosity and giving help."

-Rumi