Action for Development has recently joined the Maternal Health Synapse Network, with over 205 users, 240 organisations, 58 initiatives, and 171 resources. Safe Motherhood Week takes place from the 14th to the 20th of October 2019.
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Oct 2019
AfD’s quarterly newsletter
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World Breastfeeding Week is an annual celebration which is being held every year from 1 to 7 August in more than 120 countries. The International Breastfeeding Week in Afghanistan was celebrated at the Sapidar Palace with the participation of H.E. […]
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Our team member in Geneva was given the golden opportunity to visit the beautiful country of Afghanistan for the first time in 5 years! This allowed her to not only to visit the office of AfD in Kabul, but also to stop by one of our schools for street working children in Kart-e-Char, in a very populated area of Kabul. The experience there, after seeing all of the happy faces of the children, made her very avid to share what she observed in the school.
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12 August marks the International Youth Day. As said by the UN Secretary General Antonio Gueterres, “today, we celebrate the young people, youth-let organisations, governments and others who are working to transform education and uplift young people everywhere.”
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Women are facing many barriers accessing health care facilities and even more during particular moments of high vulnerability: pregnancies and delivery. MSF reports: Afghanistan is one the most dangerous place in the word to give birth.
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WHO has dedicated a day every year where every single one of us can engage to raise awareness about a widely spread and dangerous viral disease, allowing us to create a real impact – the World Hepatitis Day. According to [...] Read more ...
Jul 2019
The Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme established the World Population Day in 1989 as a tool to increase awareness of global population issues. Current UN data provides an estimation of 83 million people being added to the [...] Read more ...
Jun 2019
World Refugee Day is on June 20th. In a world where violence forces thousands of families to flee for their lives each day, the time is now to show that the global public stands with refugees.
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The International Day for Street Children is celebrated every year on the 12th of April since it was launched in 2011. Nearly all countries in the world have signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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