KARADAH PROJECT INTERNATIONAL

Stuff for displaced Afghan kids

Students from Abraham Lincoln High School (Council Bluffs, Iowa) and Hatefi Girls High School (Herat, Afghanistan) are joining together to collect and deliver stuffed animals, toys, and other needed humanitarian supplies to Afghan kids whose lives have been upended by violence and who now live in internally displaced persons camps.

With the help of the Afghan women-founded Women Education for Better Tomorrow Organization, Council Bluffs Sister Cities Association, and Karadah Project, Abraham Lincoln High School students are collecting all kinds of things for Afghan children. Imagine what any child might want and it is probably needed, but please avoid anything religious. If you have a questions about an item, ask us and we’ll make sure it is appropriate.

We prefer new, but we can also accept gently used items.

CONTACT
Kaitlyn Redding
Sarah Steinmetz
712-328-6481

We share the human experience

I am amazed and inspired by the resiliency of people, particularly women. Too often disdained, those who exist in a world of poverty, insecurity, displacement, and other monumental disadvantages find ways to survive and thrive. They get up each morning and face the day with courage and resolve, partially because they have to, but mostly because they choose to live. We see them as victims of circumstances, but they are so much more. Their super hero power, in a real world, is survival.

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Photo Exhibit and Panel Discussion

Most Americans have never met a refugee, much less had a personal connection with one. But many veterans' lives are intertwined with those of refugees in profound and deeply personal ways.

Join us for a photo exhibition and panel discussion highlighting the stories of veterans and the refugees in their lives.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH 6:30 P.M.
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Thompson Alumni Center, Bootstrapper Hall
6705 Dodge St., Omaha NE 68182
RSVP on Eventbrite: Here

PANELISTS
Sharon Robino-West (moderator), U.S. Marine Corps veteran and co-founder of the Nebraska-Iowa chapter of Veterans for American Ideals
Rick Burns, Army veteran and co-founder of the Nebraska-Iowa chapter of Veterans for American Ideals, founder of Karadah Project International
Emily Lindsey, commissioned Marine officer and member of Starbucks military hiring regional taskforce “The Armed Forces Network”
Mariam Adams, Iraq native, former interpreter and SIV refugee.
Shafiq Jahish, Afghanistan native, former interpreter, SIV refugee and current UNO student.

The Hidden Internally Displaced

Refugees represent nearly a third (30%) of the world’s displaced population – people forced to leave their homes due to persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations.

The much larger number of internally displaced people – those displaced within their home country – reached about 40 million in 2017 (over 1.8 million Afghans), bringing the world’s total displaced population to 68.5 million in 2017. (Pew Research Center)

Through our partnerships with local Afghan nonprofits, we are working with displaced and poor women in rural villages to stem the tide of refugees flooding into other countries. Through our vocational skills training, livestock projects, and other initiatives, we are helping women pull themselves and their families out of poverty.

If their husbands are jobless, these women can support their families. Step by step the society can improve. I am an example of an Afghan woman who works. I am a widow and I have seven children. If I don’t work, who will support my family? My children go to school now because of my income.

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